Tax scams

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

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

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

Michael Anderson and his wife, Kathy, spun his tax preparer’s electronic “prize wheel” and won a promise from the company to double their refund.

Underfoot and underhanded; hysterical hysterectomy; no way to get a head; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

$3 million in phony refunds; caretaker cares for own coffers; ‘serial fraud;’ and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Invest until it hurts; learning the tab at sentencing; foreclosure fraud; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Not ready for Primetime; copping a plea; preying on Puerto Rico; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Smoke screen; low miles but big sentence; undivine Providence; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Invented expenses; hidden returns, client gifts; skimmed immigrants; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Phony debts; dead wrongs; all ‘zeros’; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Condo bunco; life goes on; heavy metals; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Refuge of a scoundrel; elder care and hockey tickets; on the flyer; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Stat scam; shopping center switcheroo; what a pain; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Can’t impersonate guilt; Breakthrough busted; married lawyers plead; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Big bank shuffle; tax fraud smoked; asphalt, trees and evasion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Flag on the play; $7,500 in fake doctors; money funneled through the pulpit; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

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.

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