Financial crimes

Home boys; going off payroll; building a case; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Initial enthusiasm for change inspired by the country’s biggest postwar accounting scandal is waning in the face of political opposition.

An Ernst & Young partner said his firm fell victim to “criminals,” rejecting allegations EY didn’t do enough to uncover wrongdoing at the now-defunct payment processor.

Most of the insurers that provided the company with director-liability policies have agreed to pay as much as $93 million toward settlements resulting from a 2017 accounting crisis.

Tanked; lobby hobby; you’re not undercover, are you?; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Top executives at companies hit by accounting scandals could lose their bonuses under U.K. proposals for beefed-up regulation after a wave of corporate collapses including Carillion Plc and travel firm Thomas Cook Group Plc.

UnReliable; Terminated; the wire tap; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

In Touch and in jail; end of the ride; took a powder; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

RAP sheet; shipping out; Pelicon; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee want the Internal Revenue Service to assist taxpayers who are getting information returns in the mail for unemployment benefits they never received.

His story reveals the far-reaching net that continues to entangle individuals and firms who were engaged in so-called Cum-Ex transactions, almost a decade after the dividend-tax practice ended.

Family affairs; Ultimate crime; level effects; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning Wednesday to taxpayers to beware of unethical “ghost” tax preparers who don’t sign tax returns for clients.

Off the top; bad Solutions; and we quote; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Former investment banker Paul Mora is the first Cum-Ex suspect placed on Interpol’s public list of most-wanted suspects as Germany launched an international search for him in an escalation of its vast tax-evasion probe.

Embattled Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee Inc. filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York, less than a year after the company said that more than a quarter’s worth of business may have been faked.

You do the meth; what’s in a name?; snow job; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Five international tax enforcement heads, including from the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation unit, have been meeting this week to discuss their joint initiatives for combating tax evasion.

U.S. prosecutors and Internal Revenue Service agents spent four years piercing the veil of secrecy that billionaire money manager Robert F. Smith wove to hide more than $200 million in income.

Germany wants to bolster the expertise at its top financial regulator to prevent a repeat of the Wirecard scandal that exposed significant cracks in the country’s oversight.