Financial crimes

Internal Revenue Service officials said Wednesday they will be visiting approximately 800 taxpayers who earn over $100,000 a year and haven’t filed one or more tax returns in prior years.

The Internal Revenue Service urged tax professionals and taxpayers to use the free, multi-factor authentication feature offered on tax prep software, as nearly two dozen firms reported data thefts so far.

Numbers game; we have a loser; scrapped; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Three accountants share their experiences unearthing fraud.

Frivolous natures; debt of a salesman; tooth and justice; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Bernard Ebbers, the ousted chief executive officer at WorldCom Inc. whose corporate malfeasance led to imprisonment, has died. He was 78.

Very deconstructive; snowboard job; matters of discipline; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Perfect mess; package deal; bad medicine; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A little off the top; noted; over the Edge; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

The Taxpayer First Act protects a broad range of disclosures about potential violations of IRS rules or tax fraud.

Wulf Matthias of Wirecard AG resigned after months of controversy over the digital payments company’s accounting practices.

Bad news; ’tis the season; injunction schmunction; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

U.S. prosecutors recommended a three-month prison sentence for a former Internal Revenue Service analyst who pleaded guilty to illegally disclosing suspicious activity reports related to the private banking information of Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer of President Donald Trump.

Fire away; from the Big Island to the big house; getting the lead out; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Foreign intrigue; stealing green; bringing it home; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The year-long review recommends a number of sweeping changes to the profession.

With 12 years left on his sentence for accounting fraud, he received a compassionate release for his failing health.

Pelicon; far more than half; instant, speedy and guilty; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

CPAs gone wrong; on the waterfront; trooper tricks; and other highlights of recent tax cases.