Tax fraud

Technology is helping special agents root out tax fraud and evasion, despite a declining workforce.

Info direct from an IRS site; $15 million in phony refunds; school’s out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A prosecutor at a high-profile Paris trial said UBS Group AG must be “punished” by a court for helping wealthy French clients hide money from tax authorities.

The court sided with the IRS and against the action star's legal appeal.

Ex-IRS agent gets four years; Select sentence; ticket to jail; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The bank repeatedly attacked the credibility of witnesses and insisted it had no knowledge about clients evading taxes.

Escorted to prison; going to Disneyland; FATCA conviction; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A prosecutor in a high-profile French tax case questioned why UBS Group AG systematically destroyed handwritten notebooks detailing the movement of French clients’ funds to surrounding lower-tax countries.

Speedy time; embezzling from the dead; thousands in gold coins; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Banco Santander SA became the latest addition to a long list of banks targeted by German prosecutors over controversial tax-driven transactions known as “Cum-Ex” that may have cost the German state about 10 billion euros ($11.5 billion).