Enforcement is up significantly at the Internal Revenue Service, which is very bad news for anyone cheating on their taxes.
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The numbers are up.
Way up.
In fiscal year 2012, the Internal Revenue Service launched 5,125 investigations, recommended 3,701 prosecutions, and convicted 2,634 on tax charges, according to the annual report from IRS Criminal Investigation.
All of those numbers are up significantly over the previous year.
“This annual report showcases some of the many significant
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A Florida dentist faces up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to making a false statement on a federal income tax return.
According to the plea agreement, Edward James Weiss, 63, of Rockledge, Fla., diverted income from his dental business bank account over a period of three years.
Instead of depositing the income into his business account, he would often deposit the checks into his personal bank account. Weiss failed
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A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering, one count of operating an illegal gambling business, and five counts of impeding the administration of tax laws.
According to court records, John Giannelli Sr., 66, of Danvers, Mass., operated a sports-betting business while he resided in Peabody, Mass., and then Kingston, N.H. Giannelli controlled access to a gambling website and granted access to that site to agents or partners.
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The former New York State Senate majority leader pleaded guilty to filing a false and fraudulent federal tax return for the year 2005.
Pedro Espada Jr. concealed money he took from Soundview Healthcare Center, where he was CEO and president, through a janitorial company he owned. Espada also defrauded the IRS of taxes owed on income he earned from the sale of a property on Leland Avenue in the Bronx by
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With the IRS more vigilant and efficient, it’s never been more dangerous to cheat on your taxes.

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“I won’t get caught.”
I’ve heard a lot of people say that.
People who are cheating on their taxes.
People who are working with so-called tax advisors offering too-good-to-be-legal advice.
People hiding money in trusts or offshore accounts.
People not reporting a portion of their business income.
You know these people. In fact, these people may well include you.
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An Arizona man was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for wire fraud and filing false tax returns.
Phillip E. Narum, 47, was found guilty at trial on the wire fraud charges and pleaded guilty to the tax charges.
According to court records, Narum was hired in 2004 as an independent contractor at Young and Sons Contracting, a family-owned and -operated construction firm in Tucson, Ariz. Between 2005 and 2008, Narum
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IRS agents arrested a New Jersey lawyer on charges that he evaded federal income taxes and failed to pay payroll taxes for his law firm employee from 2006 through 2009.
Lee Gottesman, 56, of Toms River, N.J., was indicted on four counts of personal income tax evasion and 15 counts of willful failure to pay payroll taxes.
During the tax years covered by the indictment, Gottesman allegedly earned more than $440,000 in
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A Florida man came up with a creative reason for why he doesn’t need to pay taxes: He’s not a U.S. citizen, he told IRS agents. He’s a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven!
But Russell P. Gentile’s purportedly heavenly residence didn’t save him a trip in front of a federal judge. Gentile, 44, of Melbourne, Fla., faces one count of obstructions of an IRS agent as well as well as
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A Tennessee veterinarian faces up to three years in prison and fines up to $250,000 for federal tax charges.
Danny Dwain Moore, 56, of Unicoi, Tenn., pleaded guilty to willfully making a false federal income tax return.
Moore has been a licensed veterinarian in Tennessee since 1980. In the early 2000s, Moore began an online business specializing in the sale of natural holistic veterinary products for horses and pets. The business was
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Comedian and actor Chris Tucker, best known for his starring role with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour trilogy, owes the IRS $11.5 million in back taxes and penalties.
He’s also behind on payments on his $6 million, 10,000-square-foot waterfront home in Florida. SunTrust has filed for foreclosure on the property.
But the 39-year-old Tucker, ever the funny man, turned his financial misfortune into something of a comedy routine when he appeared
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Tax evasion is a serious crime and punishable with fines and prison sentences.  Why put yourself in a situation like this?  If you have tax problems hanging over your head, we can help you resolve them.  Tax Resolution Services is a tax firm that specializes in tax relief by resolving tax problems and settling back taxes.  Feel you can’t pay all the taxes you owe?  There are many options out
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When tax problems arise in a family, it could end the marriage.  Sometimes, the spouse is truly innocent of their partner’s tax problems and the IRS realizes that this may be the case.  There is such a thing as Innocent Spouse Tax Relief and the IRS has a series of questions and Innocent Spouse Tax Relief Rules to extricate the innocent person from being responsible for the tax problem.   If
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An Ohio businessman has been charged with attempting to evade his 2004 income taxes after he followed the erroneous advice of a person claiming to be a tax professional.
According to court records, Stephan Karchut, of Cortland, Ohio, the sole operator of a business known as PC Surveillance, failed to file income tax returns for the years 2002 to 2004, on false advice that under Section 861 of the IRS code
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The owner of Factory Direct Modular Homes in Brick, N.J., pleaded guilty to tax charges for under reporting the business’ income for tax years 2002 and 2003 by about $406,000.
Janice Pfefferkorn, 54, who also went by the name Janice Morton, pleaded guilty to a two-count Information charging her with two counts of filing a false federal tax return.
According to court records, as a broker for a modular home manufacture, Pfefferkorn
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A Tennessee man, in pleading guilty to tax charges, told the court he owes the federal government more than $300,000.
Charles Grecco, 44, of Franklin, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 6 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of failure to pay taxes to the United States.
According to the government, Grecco failed to pay more than $67,000 in federal income taxes for years 2001 and 2002. During the plea
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