Tax fraud

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.

The newest edition of the Internal Revenue Service's Dirty Dozen tax scams shows that fraudsters going at it as strong as ever.

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.

Double-dipping on wage claims and saying masks disrupted operations are just two new hallmarks of bad Employee Retention Credit claims.

The IRS warned about bad advice that's being peddled on social media promoting a bogus "Self Employment Tax Credit" and prompting unsuspecting taxpayers to file false claims for the credit.

The Internal Revenue Service has stepped up efforts to combat dubious tax advice promoting schemes involving the Fuel Tax Credit, the Sick and Family Leave Credit, and household employment taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service plans to begin slowly paying some of its older claims for the fraud-plagued Employee Retention Credit this summer, but is not lifting its moratorium.