Tax fraud

The Internal Revenue Service issued a new warning Tuesday to users of its online e-Services cautioning them to beware of a new phishing scam that attempts to trick tax professionals into “signing” a new e-Services user agreement.

UBS Group AG suffered a setback in a long-running French tax probe as a court rejected its bid to stop a former executive from striking a plea deal in the case.

Oh, baby; all in the family; 63 calls to Western Union; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Almost $120 billion remains outstanding for all cases, including those that are taxation-related.

Fraud takes a holiday; O Pioneer; a lesson in tax evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Over the past decade, the U.S. government has become much more interested in the ownership of foreign financial accounts.

Off by $10 million-plus; theft by template; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations allowing truncated Taxpayer Identification Numbers on the Form W-2 to help protect people’s Social Security Numbers from identity theft.

The Internal Revenue Service will be taking steps to deter the risk of employment tax fraud by professional employer organizations beyond the certification process it established in recent years, according to a new report.

The IRS’s ‘Don’t Take the Bait’ campaign shares tactics for protecting client data and practitioner systems.

Theft from prep help; neither snow nor rain nor the law; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Marital miscreants; Capital crime; what a dump; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit has reportedly been tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office to help investigate financial ties between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.

Out of the pool; two-timer crook; pizza plea for preparer; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has signed a contract with a company called Chainalysis that offers software for analyzing and tracking bitcoin transactions.

The Internal Revenue Service sent an urgent warning Monday about a new phishing scheme in which a scam email purporting to originate from the IRS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is actually part of a ransomware effort to take computer information hostage.

‘Refund locks’ would make taxpayer information useless to identity thieves.

Phony IDs from far away; renounced citizenship, concealed assets; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Cloud prep, phony name; sending the money out; Bay State bilked of $1.38 million; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Phishing e-mails that look like they come from tax prep software are aiming for practitioners.