Tax fraud

A selection of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The owner of Mystic Pizza, the Connecticut pizzeria made famous by the 1988 Julia Roberts movie of the same name, has been sentenced to over a year in prison on charges of tax evasion and structuring cash transactions.

Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter Monday to four federal service centers asking for clarification on reporting practices for federal employees’ wage and tax statements to the Social Security Administration and state tax agencies in order to safeguard against tax-related identity theft.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

You may find your clients worried that their identities, their credit scores and maybe their life savings will wind up at the mercy of some free-spending crook. What can you tell them?

The IRS revealed today that approximately 220,000 more taxpayers than it had previously announced were affected by a breach in its “Get Transcript” Web app.

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

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

The Internal Revenue Service lacks effective processes to ensure the authenticity of copies of documents certified by a foreign issuing agency to support an application for an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, according to a new government report.

The Internal Revenue Service is cautioning taxpayers and tax practitioners against the newest scams as losses top $20 million in money stolen from victims by fraudsters claiming to work for the IRS and other government agencies, including the Department of Motor Vehicles.

TaxBuzz, an online directory of tax professionals, has released a new service to help its users verify their providers' identity and trustworthiness.

Some of our favorite recent cases of tax fraud.

UBS AG and a banker-turned-whistleblower were deemed to have too “unclean hands” to bring a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a real-estate developer who had accused them of duping him into filing a false tax return.

Two of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Former New York congressman and FBI agent Michael Grimm is heading to prison for scamming the government out of taxes in his operation of a Manhattan health food restaurant.

Some of our favorite recent tax fraud cases.

Happy Asker, the founder of a pizza chain based in Farmington Hills, Mich., that operated restaurants throughout Michigan, Ohio and Illinois, was sentenced last week to 50 months in prison for income and employment tax fraud.

Undercover investigators working for the Government Accountability Office were able to receive approximately $30,000 in Advance Premium Tax Credits for health insurance after setting up a dozen fictitious accounts.

More than 300,000 taxpayers overpaid the Individual Shared Responsibility Payment for health insurance on their tax returns processed through the end of April, according to a new report from the National Taxpayer Advocate.

Two Swiss banks agreed to pay combined penalties of about $8.3 million to avoid prosecution under a U.S. program that requires Swiss firms to say how they helped American clients avoid taxes.