Tax fraud

Panama and the U.S. have at least one thing in common: Neither has agreed to new international standards to make it harder for tax evaders and money launderers to hide their money.

Leaked files from a Panama law firm that creates shell companies show that politicians, criminals and celebrities worldwide have used banks and shadow companies to hide their finances, according to a series of reports by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

A New Jersey man has been indicted for placing hundreds of telephone calls to the Internal Revenue Service’s electronic payment system in an effort to obtain credit for hundreds of millions of dollars in fictitious tax payments to the IRS that he did not actually make.

Scammers are trying new tactics to convince taxpayers to hand over their personal information, the Internal Revenue Service warned.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service is having trouble coordinating various overlapping programs that deal with referrals on tax evasion, in part because the referrals have to be submitted on paper forms, manually screened and then mailed to various departments within the IRS.

With the increasing reliance on technology for filing tax returns, is the federal government taking the necessary measures to protect personal information?

The odds of being criminally prosecuted by the Internal Revenue Service have fallen as a result of budget cuts at the hands of Congress, decreasing from 13.3 per million population in fiscal year 2013 to 9.2 per million in FY 2015, according to new research.

The Internal Revenue Service has released the Top 10 Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2015 to highlights its efforts to combat tax refund fraud and identity theft.