Tax fraud

The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program has closed and there are new, tougher procedures in place.

Fish tales; from the general to the illegal; dinged; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Sunset for a tax scheme; $4,000 in phony refunds per return; aging badly; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The chief executive officer of Denmark’s biggest fund will step down for allegedly trying to dodge Swiss taxes while running a unit of Nordea Bank a decade ago.

Criminals are faking tax transcripts to fool recipients into clicking on and opening documents containing malware that could infect their computers.

Walls of straw; fuel for fraud; silver and gold and evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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).

Preparer for illegal aliens pleads; wheat tricks; Ace goes down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A former Julius Baer banker who leaked documents from a Cayman Islands subsidiary was cleared of breaking Swiss banking secrecy by Switzerland’s top court, creating possible problems for how the Alpine nation’s banks manage their foreign units.

Ordinary families might stash spare cash under a mattress or in a safety deposit box. South Korea’s Lee family are so rich they spent years leaving billions of dollars under the names of their employees.

U.K. cake baker Patisserie Holdings Plc suspended its chief financial officer after uncovering “significant, and potentially fraudulent, accounting irregularities” and a demand for more than a million pounds in back taxes.