Tax fraud

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers and tax professionals to beware of a new twist on an old scam.

Bad intentions; all adults here; pool party; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Over the last few years, captive insurance has become the tax shelter du jour for accountants and wealth planners looking to find ways to help their small business owner clients reduce their tax exposures. Now the IRS is cracking down on the scheme.

French toast; unsportsmanlike conduct; nailed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Everybody out of the Pool; dying Embers; the House falls; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service could make better use of its data to ferret out abusive tax schemes involving charities and other tax-exempt groups, including syndicated conservation easements, according to a new report.

A TIGTA report found the IRS has trouble telling good claims from bad.

That’s Almorli; uniform justice; the cookie crumbles; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Mr. Unfreeze; Discount miscount; pity me, pity me; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service released a new set of tax gap estimates for tax years 2011, 2012 and 2013, indicating the tax compliance rate is mostly unchanged from previous years.

Authorities probe more than a dozen of the luxury brand’s current and former executives over an alleged tax-avoidance scheme.

Guns galore; game of Chicken; an ID you can’t refuse; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Newly appointed officials in the SB/SE Division plan to make changes in the IRS’s strategy for dealing with collections and enforcement.

Germany’s biggest tax scandal has landed the masters of the financial universe with an unflattering label: criminal organizations.

Up to 200 taxpayers who have been under audit for participating in micro-captive insurance tax schemes are receiving letters from the Internal Revenue Service.

Coming up roses; gettin’ out of Dodge; extra-judicial income; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

German authorities continued their investigations into multiple global lenders.

The IRS considers Bitcoin and other virtual currency to be property and not fiat currency.

Almost 40 percent — or some $15 trillion — of the world’s foreign direct investment is “phantom capital” designed to minimize the tax bills of multinational firms, according to a study published by the International Monetary Fund.

Fast, Quick and jailed; Complete fraud; eight figures off the books; and other highlights of recent tax cases.