Financial crimes

Eight people were arrested for impersonating Internal Revenue Service employees and calling innocent taxpayers to threaten them about bogus tax debts.

"You must pay your taxes immediately, or else," an ominous voice on the other line says before demanding a credit-card number. Most Americans roll their eyes and hang up on these scam calls, but thousands have fallen victim, and millennials are more susceptible than older generations, a new study finds.

False losses claimed; kids’ IDs for sale; ‘lavish lifestyle’ becomes eight months in jail; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Maryland red lights more preparers; gambling with ill-gotten gains; deli defrauding; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The first step in any successful whistleblower claim for auditors and accountants is to determine eligibility.

As Tax Day looms near, cybercriminals will be making a strong push down the final stretch.

The lawsuit alleges that the ‘notoriously greedy’ studio failed to report on the film’s profits.

Creative parking violations; scams at day care; “additional” cash fees; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Reality TV star Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino and his brother Marc are facing more tax evasion charges in a long-running case.

A new report from IBM’s security research group sheds light on how tax scam emails are proliferating.

Internal Revenue Service criminal investigators mainly pursued law-abiding citizens and businesses when seizing assets in civil forfeiture cases because they were easier to go after, according to a new government report.

The second-largest Swiss wealth manager faces a sweeping tax evasion and money laundering investigation spanning five countries and potentially involving thousands of account holders.

Repeat-offender preparer pleads guilty; false filing among many charges in $3 million fraud; Belize accounts; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The British grocery company agrees to a 214 million pound penalty to resolve regulatory probes.

Inflating and stealing refunds, three sentenced for faking Scheduled C figures; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

No matter how small your firm is, your clients’ information is very tempting to hackers.

KPMG said it has been cooperating with authorities on an investigation of a former official at New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority who has been accused of steering work to the Big Four firm.

More businesses are failing to remit payroll taxes, with 1.4 million employers owing approximately $45.6 billion in unpaid employment taxes, interest and penalties as of December 2015.

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has sanctioned a former partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Auditores Independentes in Brazil for audit failures involving Sara Lee Corporation.

An ITS preparer sentenced, an injunction for ‘serial tax fraud,’ and other highlights of recent cases.