As part of recent efforts to collect unpaid taxes, the Senate Finance Committee has held a confirmation hearing on July 14 to consider the nomination of William Wilkins to be IRS Chief Counsel. Wilkins is expected to spearhead IRS efforts to close the $345 billion a year tax gap.
In this recession, the government feels more hard-pressed than ever to collect unpaid tax revenue in order to fund economically beneficial projects
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In an effort to more aggressively pursue tax evaders who hide assets in overseas accounts, the US Department of Justice, UBS AG (Swiss Bank), and the Swiss government are working together to reveal the identities of US depositors who use secret offshore accounts.
In order to aid Obama’s latest efforts to bring out tax cheats who take advantage of offshore tax havens, the government of Switzerland filed a brief in the
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If you submit false documents in your tax returns, the IRS will impose severe tax penalties on you upon discovery. The money you save by trying to claim excess deductions (that are not entitled to you) is not worth the IRS trouble you will bring yourself.
CCH (http://tax.cchgroup.com) reports:
Individual Submitting False Documents Liable for Fraud Penalty
An individual who improperly claimed deductions for employee business expenses and who submitted false documents
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The IRS considers the assistance of filing false tax returns a severely criminal and punishable act. The IRS is able to utilize charts and summary data of national tax return statistics to determine the “normalcy” of a tax return. If your tax return is substantially higher than the national average, you will be a likely suspect for the IRS to investigate. If found guilty, you will be penalized by
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When taxpayers file for bankruptcy, some taxes and penalties may be discharged–giving people a chance of obtaining tax relief.  When someone files for bankruptcy, the “automatic stay” stops taxing authorities from collection actions including seizures and wage garnishments. The extent of the tax relief from bankruptcy may depend on a few factors including: the kind of tax involved, the age of the tax, whether a return was filed, and the
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In economic times when people are strapped for cash, it is tempting to cut corners when filing taxes in order to save some of your disposable income. After all, small tax savings from many different areas can add up to a substantial amount of money. However, no matter how tempting tax evasion may seem - whether it is small or large in sum - it is a terrible financial strategy
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Rodney F. Harris, 39, of Memphis, Tenn., has been sentenced to serve 15 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $14,479.00 to the Internal Revenue Service.Â
Harris was charged with 20 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns. According to the indictment, Harris prepared 20 federal income tax returns for various people in 2002, 2003 and 2004, that contained partially fraudulent Schedule A
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Kevin William Small, 44, was sentenced to 150 months in prison for filing false returns. While an inmate in Pennsylvania, Small filed tax returns for years 2003, 2004 and 2005. He claimed tax refunds due to him of $5,027 for 2002, $603,107 for 2003, and $415,769 for 2004. The total loss to the United States would have been more than $1 million had he received the fraudulent refunds.

David S. Park and Dae Hee Kwon, the owners of a Dallas-area dental lab, have been charged with eight counts of filing or aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns.According to the indictment, David S. Park and Dae Hee Kwon each owned 50 percent of Amtech Dental Lab Corporation, which provided lab and technical services for dentists. From 2001 through 2004, some of the checks Amtech received for
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A federal jury convicted A. Thomas Thorson, 67, of New York, for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Treasury Department and aiding the filing of false income tax returns in connection with a scheme to sell millions in fraudulent income tax deductions.”People who cheat the IRS are cheating their friends, neighbors and fellow citizens,” said United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
Testimony at the three-week trial showed Thorson and his co-conspirators persuaded
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Alan L. Homsy, 45, of Allston, Mass., pleaded guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns, eight counts of false and fraudulent claims for tax refunds and 18 counts of failure to collect and pay employment taxes. Homsy owned and operated moving companies, and evidence showed he failed to collect and pay the IRS more than $85,000 owed for income taxes withheld from employee wages and for employer FICA
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A federal grand jury indicted Ndubuisi Joseph Okafor, a 49-year-old doctor in Mitchellville, Md., on charges of tax evasion and filing a false federal tax return.According to the 13-count indictment, Dr. Okafor operated a medical practice called The Okafor Group, which provided primary care medicine in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area.
The indictment alleges that from 1997 to 2005, Okafor evaded his taxes by reporting false information to the IRS and
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Following a three-week trial in Denver that resulted in his conviction on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and filing false tax returns, tax fraud promoter Robert N. Bedford, 60, of Seminole, Fla., was sentenced to serve 42 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release.The evidence established that Bedford provided legal and tax advice to his co-conspirators on how to circumvent IRS regulations and create
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Following an IRS criminal investigation, a federal grand jury indicted Fawzi Mahmoud Swalim, a former resident of San Francisco, with filing false tax returns from 2000 to 2002. According to the indictment, Swalim, 53, is alleged to have filed false tax returns from 2000 to 2002, which underreported gross receipts of his retail grocery business. He faces up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

The president of California-based Allied Telecom was indicted on two counts of evading her federal income taxes for the years 2000 and 2001.The 39-year-old Diana Hojsak — aka Diana Lu or Jing Jing Lu — was also charged with two counts of filing false federal income tax returns for her wholly owned corporation, Allied Telecom International Inc.
Hojsak is charged with diverting commission payments payable to Allied Telecom to her personal
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