Tax fraud

Tax cheats can breathe a little easier. The gun-toting Internal Revenue Service investigators who send felons to prison are retiring in droves and there’s no one to replace them.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has been developing a new system to detect fraudulent tax returns to replace an outdated system, but has not been able to phase out the old system, which could cost taxpayers an estimated $18 million per year to run both systems, according to a new report.

Deutsche Bank AG’s Swiss unit agreed to pay $31 million to receive a non-prosecution agreement in a U.S. probe of banks in Switzerland that helped Americans evade taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service sent out an alert Tuesday warning tax preparers about an phishing email message purporting to ask them to update their IRS e-Services information.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service is beginning the next round of its battle against tax-related identity theft by debuting a public awareness campaign to persuade more taxpayers to safeguard their personal information, in conjunction with tax preparation companies and state tax authorities.

A roundup of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service needs to improve its detection of business identity theft, according to a new government report.

The widow of Texas billionaire Charles Wyly told a judge the IRS wrongly accused her of a “sinister” tax-avoidance plot to bolster the agency’s $1.2 billion claim in her bankruptcy case.

The Internal Revenue Service has introduced a formal policy to assist identity-theft victims in getting copies of bogus tax returns filed in their name.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Thomson Reuters has published a guide for tax professionals whose clients have been victimized by tax-related identity theft.

A couple of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Piguet Galland & Cie SA will pay $15.4 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires participating firms in Switzerland to say how they helped American clients dodge taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service met with a group of state tax administrators and tax industry leaders Tuesday to discuss additional steps they are taking for next tax season to strengthen safeguards against identity theft and tax refund fraud.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it has collected more than $8 billion from its Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs as more than 54,000 taxpayers have come forward to tell the IRS about previously hidden foreign assets.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration issued a warning Thursday as millions of taxpayers raced to meet the October 15 deadline for tax extensions that although it is making some progress in its investigation of a phone fraud scam perpetrated by individuals misrepresenting themselves as Internal Revenue Service employees, taxpayers should continue to beware of these fraudulent phone calls.