Tax fraud

Protect your clients from the Form W-2 email phishing scam that has now evolved beyond the corporate world and is spreading to other types of organizations.

Judge grants leniency to Swiss banking customer for cooperating with prosecutors.

The Justice Department wants to send a stern message by sending tax cheats to prison, but some U.S. judges have opted for a softer approach.

The free course from the National Association of Tax Professionals was a joint venture with the IRS and the Federal Trade Commission.

Using your late mother’s Social Security number for fraud, and other highlights of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service is making progress on its efforts to combat stolen identity refund fraud, but the accuracy of its measurements of the identity theft problem needs to be better, according to a new government report.

Democrats on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee are objecting to a resolution from House Republicans to repeal recently finalized Treasury Department rules that would discourage corporate tax inversions.

Legislation aimed at preventing fraud could cost the economy as much as $21 billion this month.

What a tax overhaul might look like; owing $.00 to the IRS; tax season security and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

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.

A congressional staffer faces incarceration every weekend for a year, and a Pittsburgh ice rink that didn’t pay its employment taxes.