Tax scams

Tax professionals are doing their best to warn the public, but it’s a never-ending task.

The service’s annual list of the worst tax scams, frauds and general bad behavior.

Stopped for Speedy; hitting the Breaks; Interior motive; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service cautioned practitioners to be on the alert for the re-emergence of a cybercriminal scam that is helping fuel a dramatic uptick in reports of stolen information from firms.

Scheming from coffee shops; disbarred and behind bars; AOTC on 3,000 returns; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Bogus W-2s; dependents, complete with numbers; underreporting supplemental money; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Implications of Kill Quill; Oscar, Oscar, Oscar; Sec. 199A questions; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Status guilty; felony charges dropped against New York CPA; sales fails; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

International schemes sought millions; an asset shuffle; time’s up for temp agency; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Bighorn to the big house; rotten apple; in Dutch; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers Tuesday to beware of a quickly proliferating scam involving erroneous tax refunds being deposited in their bank accounts, after a data breach on their tax preparers' computers gives them access to sensitive client information.

Help the IRS debunk a handful of taxpayer misconceptions for this filing season.

Eighteen months, guaranteed; former CPA, current inmate; trust them not; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

An ex-math teacher turned Marseilles piano-bar manager who claimed links to Corsica’s underworld allegedly spearheaded a 385 million-euro ($478 million) tax scam and spent part of the proceeds on Beverly Hills real estate.

The Internal Revenue Service warned tax professionals Friday to beef up their security measures and avoid clicking on some new phishing emails that can download malware onto their computers to steal their clients’ data.

Now filling a cell; no EFIN, no problem; cleaning up but not filing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Psychics gone bad; wrong numbers; cattle and veils; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Tax authorities are warning payroll pros about a familiar scam.

Personal and professional; off he goes (to jail); charity case; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Gone Postal; five down in fraud; ‘saves me a lot of taxes’; and other highlights of recent tax cases.