Tax evasion

The Internal Revenue Service has been conducting "sweeps" in recent years to uncover cases where high-income people have not been filing taxes.

Cutting IRS staffing in half over the next 10 months would mean less help and longer waits for taxpayers and let wealthy tax cheats escape paying what they owe.

To the Internal Revenue Service, Roger Ver symbolizes a new target in the digital age: a crypto holder suspected of failing to pay taxes after selling tokens.

In the first half year of Inflation Reduction Act-funded enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service has recovered over $1.3 billion.

With football season now underway, the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation unit is urging taxpayers to play by the rules when it comes to sports betting.

A Brazilian-American businessman who lives in Florida was charged with using Credit Suisse Group AG, UBS Group AG and other Swiss banks to hide more than $20 million in assets from U.S. tax authorities over 35 years.

The customers include a Brazilian businessman whose Florida residence was raided by the IRS and a Colombian family featured in a Senate report about the bank's role in tax evasion schemes.

The tax authority is drafting final regulations that would require crypto brokers, including exchanges, to report detailed information on their clients' transactions.

The new positions, which will be in more than 250 locations, will help ramp up compliance efforts against high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations, and promoters.

Relationships between a wealth management company and a law firm soured and spilled into a Quebec court.

Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, and Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, introduced bipartisan legislation to put more responsibility on accountants and other financial professionals to safeguard against money laundering and other crimes.

It’s one of the hottest corners of crypto — and now the U.S. government wants its share of the profits.

The Internal Revenue Service is focusing on cryptocurrency tax evasion with virtual currencies like Bitcoin and nonfungible tokens, employing data analytics to uncover transactions that crypto users assumed were hidden.

Individuals have already started receiving requests for information, according to tax attorneys.

The Biden administration is also calling for banks to report on account flows to help boost tax-payment compliance.

Collecting all unpaid income tax from the top 1% would boost revenue to the U.S. Treasury by $175 billion a year.

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.

The bank allegedly helped French clients evade taxes.