Tax evasion

The world’s wealthy are increasingly on the move.

This tax day, tax evasion has topped $400 billion dollars.

Revenue officers visited nearly 100 businesses suspected of having serious issues with employment tax compliance.

A looming Swiss Supreme Court ruling could add to the bank's woes.

The U.K. taxman is coming under fire over its program giving the wealthy one last opportunity to disclose income or assets stashed in secretive offshore accounts.

Bank Hapoalim Ltd., Israel’s second-biggest bank, set aside an additional $246 million to settle a lengthy tax evasion investigation by U.S. authorities. The shares fell the most in more than two months.

A Paris court found the bank guilty of helping wealthy French clients stash undeclared funds in Swiss accounts.

The Swiss lender eschewed a settlement in a French tax investigation after failing to agree on an amount, exposing it to in-court demands from the state.

Art dealer Mary Boone, the darling of New York’s throbbing downtown scene in the 1980s, made a splash last year when she pleaded guilty to a years-long tax evasion scheme. Then, instead of a prison term, she asked a judge to sentence her to running her galleries.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Whistleblower Program made 217 awards to whistleblowers totaling $312,207,590 and collected $1,441,255,859, according to a new report.

A private bank under investigation in Germany over a series of controversial tax deals has opened a new legal front.

Swiss prosecutors are seeking a four-year prison term for a former UBS Group AG employee accused of breaking bank secrecy laws after he allegedly stole client data and sold the information to German tax authorities.

In a series of tweets, the businessman announced he has not filed a tax return for eight years, calling taxation “theft” and “illegal.”

The nation’s super-rich are running for cover on concern the government will make up the shortfall by going after the wealthy.

The Asian country’s effort to get its citizens to pay taxes by enrolling them in a lottery is delivering a big payout — for the government.

Tax settlements are often scuttled when you ignore the “dissipated asset” rule.

The widow of a onetime Frenchman billionaire won a round of her fight against a criminal tax investigation linked to the Panama Papers leak that initially targeted her husband.

The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program has closed and there are new, tougher procedures in place.

The chief executive officer of Denmark’s biggest fund will step down for allegedly trying to dodge Swiss taxes while running a unit of Nordea Bank a decade ago.

Technology is helping special agents root out tax fraud and evasion, despite a declining workforce.