Tax crimes

Leaders from the service’s Criminal Investigation unit and tax authorities from Australia, the U.K., Canada and the Netherlands met in Australia this week to set priorities in the fight against international tax crimes.

Internal Revenue Service officials said Wednesday they will be visiting approximately 800 taxpayers who earn over $100,000 a year and haven’t filed one or more tax returns in prior years.

The Internal Revenue Service urged tax professionals and taxpayers to use the free, multi-factor authentication feature offered on tax prep software, as nearly two dozen firms reported data thefts so far.

Numbers game; we have a loser; scrapped; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Frivolous natures; debt of a salesman; tooth and justice; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Very deconstructive; snowboard job; matters of discipline; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Perfect mess; package deal; bad medicine; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A little off the top; noted; over the Edge; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

The Taxpayer First Act protects a broad range of disclosures about potential violations of IRS rules or tax fraud.