Tax fraud

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

An employee who worked in the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service at a job assisting identity theft victims has instead been charged with running a $1 million identity theft tax fraud scheme.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA agreed to pay $45.4 million to avoid prosecution for helping U.S. clients evade taxes.

The former tax preparer for Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, one of the stars of the MTV reality TV series “Jersey Shore,” and his brother, Marc Sorrentino, pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing fraudulent tax returns on their behalf.

Credit Agricole SA’s unit in Switzerland agreed to pay $99.2 million to avoid prosecution through a U.S. program that has secured almost $742 million in penalties from 64 Swiss banks that disclosed how they helped Americans evade taxes.

A New York tax preparer received a 12-month prison sentence and was ordered to pay $144,604.00 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after he was convicted of preparing false tax returns.

A roundup of some of our favorite new tax fraud cases.

ADP is participating in an Internal Revenue Service pilot program to test verification codes on W-2 forms in an effort to reduce tax refund fraud.