Tax fraud

Checking out; chairman of the hoard; unlucky Linda; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sanjay Shah, who founded a London hedge fund that specialized in controversial Cum-Ex trades, was charged by Danish prosecutors in a 9.6 billion-krone ($1.6 billion) tax-fraud probe, according to a person familiar with the case.

The Internal Revenue Service hasn’t been pursuing cases involving hundreds of billions of dollars in income from individuals and businesses whose income has been showing up in Form 1099-K information returns, but has been otherwise unreported.

Ooo, the pain; off the market; a lower calling; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Criminal Investigation Division is in a nostalgic mood, releasing a retrospective this week of its top five cases of the year through its Twitter handle, @IRS_CI.

Devil’s in the details; the court date; smackdown; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Prosecutors call for 'healthy skepticism' regarding the suspect's sudden decline.

Attorney General William Barr said he sees no reason to appoint a special counsel to oversee an investigation of President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, a statement sure to frustrate President Donald Trump and his closest advisers.

Folded; they didn’t need to know; sentence guaranteed; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned electronic return originators about a new identity theft scheme aimed at holders of Electronic Filing Identification Numbers from fraudsters posing as IRS contractors.

Top boss no more; wrong slide of the law; the run’s over; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Major providers will offer an option for MFA, and the IRS strongly encourages users to take advantage of this added security measure.

The IRS is working with tax professionals to warn the public about coronavirus scams.

Busted; ‘an undercover agent or anything;’ dastardly deeds; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Starting in January, the six-digit numbers will be available to everyone, not just those who have suffered from identity theft.

Island girls; five-year mission; nurse malpractitioner; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A group of 25 Democrats in the House wrote to congressional leaders asking them to provide $12.1 billion in funding for the Internal Revenue Service, including $5.2 billion for enforcement, with an eye toward cracking down on high-income tax cheats.

Taxpayers around the world lose at least $427 billion each year to individual tax evasion and multinational corporate profit-shifting, which undercuts public funding for a COVID-19 response, according to a new report.

Drug money; Phoenix descending; stepping down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

But the IRS would need more resources, writes Natasha Sarin, an assistant professor of law at UPenn.