Tax fraud

Boaz Schwartz was detained over alleged value-added-tax violations involving the company’s clients, the latest setback in the German firm’s attempts to end years of legal issues and misconduct.

A pair of new government reports highlighted some of the hurdles the Internal Revenue Service needed to overcome last filing season as it struggles to help taxpayers and identity theft victims despite constrained resources.

The scheme is now spreading to more organizations beyond corporate America, with schools, restaurants, hospitals and tribal groups now being targeted by cybercriminals.

Businesses that never existed, students who never went to school, and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service is taking a new approach to tax compliance, with a series of 13 initiatives aimed at cracking down on tax evasion.

W-2 scams, e-mail scams, phone scams, and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers this week.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s revised guidance on transfer pricing to prevent base erosion and profit shifting will have minor administration costs for the Internal Revenue Service, although the impact on companies is uncertain.

$24,000 in EITC due diligence fines and other highlights from our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service, along with state tax authorities and the tax preparation industry, are cautioning businesses to beware of an email phishing scam using a corporate officer’s name asking for employee W-2 forms from payroll and human resources departments at companies.

A Montana federal court has authorized the Internal Revenue Service to serve a summons on a Montana man on the use of offshore accounts in Panama tied to debit cards.