With less than two weeks until the April 18 deadline for filing individual federal income tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing stern warnings to
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DOJ Announces Final Resolutions Under Its Groundbreaking Swiss Bank Program As Program Enters “Legacy” Phase
Originally published by the International Enforcement Law Reporter (Feb. 10, 2017)
By Matthew D. Lee[1]
On December 29, 2016, the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced that it had reached
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Justice Department Sends Stern Warning to Employers With Continuing Crackdown on Employment Tax Fraud
Ensuring that employers collect and pay over to the Internal Revenue Service taxes withheld from their employees’ wages is one of the highest priorities of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
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2017 Tax Filing Season Opens With Flurry of DOJ and IRS Enforcement Actions
The Internal Revenue Service opened the 2017 tax filing yesterday, announcing that more than 153 million returns are expected to be filed this year. The tax filing deadline for this
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A Federal Crackdown On Tax Zapper Software
In December, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against John Yin, a software salesman who worked for a Canadian company that sells point of sale (POS) software programs that enabled
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Feds Crack Down on Use of “Tax Zapper” Software by Restaurants and Other Cash Businesses
In December, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against John Yin, a software salesman who worked for a Canadian company that sells “point of sale” software programs that enabled restaurants
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DOJ Announces Final Resolutions Under Its Groundbreaking Swiss Bank Program As Program Enters “Legacy” Phase
Today the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced that it has reached final resolutions with the remaining “Category 3 and 4” Swiss banks who had enrolled in the Swiss Bank Program
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Lessons from DOJ Prosecution of Tony Hu for Sales Tax Fraud
On Oct. 18, 2016, a federal judge sentenced a well-known Chicago restaurant owner to prison for carrying out an extensive scheme to avoid paying state sales tax collected from customers
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Court Authorizes IRS to Seek Identities of Bitcoin Users and Users of Other Virtual Currencies
On November 30th, a federal district court in California entered an order authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe Summons on Coinbase Inc. seeking information about U.S.
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To Address Growing IRS Whistleblower Claim Backlog, DOJ Encourages Submission of Certain Larger, Credible Claims for Tax Division Review
In order to assist the Internal Revenue Service in processing the mountain of whistleblower claims it is receiving, the Justice Department’s Tax Division has indicated that it is open to
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