Imagine how tempting it would be if you had access to the federal income tax information of your neighbors, your boss, or an old boyfriend! The IRS implemented the Unauthorized Access, Attempted Access, or Inspection of Taxpayer Records (UNAX) program to help monitor...
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Know a Tax Cheat? Turn them in for a Whistleblower Reward!
There may not be a Hallmark card for National Whistleblower Day, but it has been a day celebrated by the IRS since the whistleblower reward program began in 2007. Since then, the IRS has collected $7 billion from non-compliant taxpayers and has paid over $1.2 billion...
New Scams Are Targeting Tax Professionals and Taxpayers, Alike
The IRS and Security Summit are issuing warnings to tax professionals and individuals to be wary of the various schemes scammers use to obtain business and taxpayer information. While many of these schemes have been around for a while, scammers are becoming more...
Southern California CPA Pleads Guilty to Preparing False Tax Returns
A tax return preparer in Southern California pled guilty to operating a tax return preparation business that prepared over 11,000 tax returns, demanding refunds totaling over $38 million from the IRS beginning in 2013. Salvador Gonzalez, owner of Grace’s Lighthouse...
IRS releases 2023 Data Book describing agency’s transformation through statistics
The Results Are In! The IRS issued its annual Data Book with numerical data on a variety of topics related to tax assessments, collections, audits, and criminal cases. For the 2023 fiscal year, the IRS collected about $4.7 trillion, which represents 96% of the total...
TIGTA REVIEWS THE IRS’ GHOST EMPLOYER PROJECT
Ghost Employers are those nefarious employers who withhold payroll taxes from their employees’ paychecks but fail to submit the withheld payroll taxes to the IRS as required. These employers are dubbed Ghost Employers and use the funds instead for their company or for...
Treasury Reports $159 Million Ordered in Restitution
In a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) concerning its COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, the agency reported that $159 million has been ordered in restitution related to fraud connected to programs offered during the...
DOJ Wants Criminal White-Collar Whistleblowers
Often times when someone is charged with a crime, that person may have a chance to significantly reduce their sentence by sharing relevant information with the Department of Justice about other criminal activity previously unknown to the department. Many defendants...
IRS WARNS PREPARERS OF NEW EFIN SCAM
The IRS has announced upcoming training and other information for tax preparers to warn them of recent scams including fraudsters impersonating various software companies in an attempt to steal Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs). To read the complete IRS...
Fraudsters Found Guilty for Billion-Dollar Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Scam
Two tax shelter promoters were found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, aiding and assisting the filing of false tax returns and subscribing to false returns, and one was also convicted of money laundering. The defendants, Jack Fisher and James Sinnott,...
