Getting Into Compliance with Your Foreign Account Reporting, Part I

Other Posts in this Series Part II Part III With the 2015 release of the “Panama Papers,” roughly 11.5 million documents detailing personal financial information of wealthy individuals and identifying nearly 215,000 offshore entities are now available to government authorities. That and other leaks, as well as the overall step-up...

Willful Failure to Report Employee Wages to EDD Leads to Felony Conviction

For over a decade, Fumeei Nikko Wu owned and operated the iconic 10,000 square foot, three-story Stonehouse Old Brewery in Nevada City, CA. Following complaints and a 1 year-long joint investigation by local police and TRaCe (the Tax Recovery and Criminal Enforcement Task Force of the Department of Alcohol and...

Highest sentence on record for tax fraud gets #1 spot on the IRS Top Ten

Other Posts in this Series Theft of police officer's identity leads to discovery or major fraud operation and 42 arrests "That Guy" Found and Sentenced Florida woman uses identities of dead people to collect $1.5 million in fraudulent refunds Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme in Georgia 56-member crime ring apprehended...

Nine women sentenced for $24 million identity theft and tax refund fraud scheme using personal identification information of military personnel

Other Posts in this Series Theft of police officer's identity leads to discovery or major fraud operation and 42 arrests "That Guy" Found and Sentenced Florida woman uses identities of dead people to collect $1.5 million in fraudulent refunds Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme in Georgia 56-member crime ring apprehended...

Personal identification information of hospital patients and teenagers used to file fraudulent tax returns

Other Posts in this Series Theft of police officer's identity leads to discovery or major fraud operation and 42 arrests "That Guy" Found and Sentenced Florida woman uses identities of dead people to collect $1.5 million in fraudulent refunds Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme in Georgia 56-member crime ring apprehended...