Tax fraud

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service added new data elements last tax season to its computer system filters to catch suspected cases of identity theft-related tax fraud totaling $4.1 billion, according to a new report, but it posted information about the secret data elements on its public website IRS.gov before removing it.

Police in India have raided nine call centers in Mumbai and arrested 70 people who were calling phone numbers in the United States pretending to be Internal Revenue Service demanding payment for taxes.

The Wildenstein family of art dealers sold more than 600 pieces since the turn of the century, generating around $300 million in cash to fund their lifestyle, and has works worth nearly three times that much in storage, according to a banker who has intricate financial knowledge of the clan’s dealings.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The very rich are different from you and me. They even have their own IRS audit squad.

The Internal Revenue Service has chosen four private debt collection agencies to help collect unpaid tax debts as the IRS gears up to resurrect the controversial program.

Members of the wealthy Wildenstein art-dealing family finally went on trial over fiscal fraud allegations after a French judge rejected a second bid to delay the case to allow French tax authorities to finish a related investigation.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

An Internal Revenue Service revenue officer has pleaded guilty to fraud charges for filing tax returns using taxpayers’ identities and failing to report income he received from an unauthorized tax business.