Tax fraud

Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti, who made his name as a fierce critic of President Donald Trump, was indicted by a federal grand jury in California on three dozen charges, including a new claim that he stole millions of dollars from a paraplegic client’s settlement.

Revenue officers visited nearly 100 businesses suspected of having serious issues with employment tax compliance.

Customer service and bothersome clients; SALT works-in-progress; time needed for Trump’s returns; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

The number of taxpayers who reported they were victims of identity theft fell 71 percent between 2015 and 2018, thanks to coordination between the IRS and its Security Summit partners.

Zapped; drug deals; doing the deduction shuffle; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are asking the Internal Revenue Service to crack down on the people involved in the recent college admissions scandal.

The service names its annual ‘worst of the worst’ tax scams.

Four-time loser; the thieving IRS; addresses and debit cards; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee launched a probe into a tax scam that siphons billions of dollars away from the federal government.

Prosecutors recorded a phone call in which William Singer said his charity was being audited and the parents should tell the IRS their contributions were for needy children.

The federal investigators who uncovered the scam probably got help from the accountants.

Two firms barred; very differently abled; pain in the neck; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has been cracking down on tax-related ID theft, helping make 11 arrests and indict 15 individuals in recent weeks.

The call may pretend to be from the TAS offices in Houston or Brooklyn.

The California charity at the center of the college-admissions scandal apparently never attracted attention from the IRS.

A looming Swiss Supreme Court ruling could add to the bank's woes.

The U.K. taxman is coming under fire over its program giving the wealthy one last opportunity to disclose income or assets stashed in secretive offshore accounts.

This will hurt a bit; death and taxes; millions in income, decades of not filing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The president's former campaign chairman won leniency from a federal judge who sent him to prison for less than four years, but next week he’ll be sentenced in a second case.

Teemco player; reverse that merger!; ATM gamble doesn’t pay off; and other highlights of recent tax cases.