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January 3, 2023 ¡ª IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) will count down the agency¡¯s top 10 cases for calendar year 2022 on its Twitter account beginning January 3. These cases include the agency¡¯s most prominent and high-profile investigations the past year.

Press releases published by Criminal Investigation in May 2022.

IR-2024-223, Aug. 23, 2024 ¡ª The IRS has made significant progress on a range of improvements, including that all taxpayers can do all of their interactions with the IRS digitally if they choose, making it possible for the IRS to uncover and address tax evasion shrouded in complexity that requires subject matter expertise and data science.

IR-2024-310, Dec. 12, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today provided the regular quarterly update to the Strategic Operating Plan, outlining key milestones in criminal investigations, improvements to taxpayer services and advancements in digital modernization that have transformed agency operations while protecting billions of taxpayer dollars.

IR-2024-128, May 1, 2024 ¡ª As National Small Business Week continues, the Internal Revenue Service urges entrepreneurs to put in place data security safeguards protecting their financial, personal and employee information from scams and cybercriminals hunting for easy targets.

Monthly news release archive for March 2025

September 22, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James Smith, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (¡°FBI¡±), announced that an Indictment was unsealed this morning charging U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, his wife Nadine Menendez, a/k/a ¡°Nadine Arslanian,¡± and three New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana, a/k/a ¡°Will Hana,¡± Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, with participating in a years-long bribery scheme. The Indictment alleges that Menendez and his wife, Nadine Menendez, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes from Hana, Uribe, and Daibes in exchange for Menendez¡¯s agreement to use his official position to protect and enrich them and to benefit the Government of Egypt. Among other things, Menendez agreed and sought to pressure a senior official at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in an effort to protect a business monopoly granted to Hana by Egypt, disrupt a criminal case undertaken by the New Jersey Attorney General¡¯s Office related to associates of Uribe, and disrupt a federal criminal prosecution brought by the U.S. Attorney¡¯s Office for the District of New Jersey against Daibes. Menendez, Nadine Menendez, Hana, Uribe, and Daibes are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at 10:30 a.m. The case is assigned to U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein.

IR-2023-119, June 21, 2023 ¡ª National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins today released her statutorily mandated midyear report to Congress. The report says the tax-return filing season generally ran smoothly this year, urges the Internal Revenue Service to prioritize a broad array of technology upgrades and sets forth key objectives of the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate for the upcoming fiscal year.

IR-2024-09, Jan. 12, 2024 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service announced today continued progress to expand enforcement efforts related to high-income individuals, large corporations and complex partnerships as part of wider efforts to transform the agency.

IR-2023-04, January 11, 2023 ¡ª National Taxpayer Advocate Erin M. Collins today released her 2022 Annual Report to Congress, saying taxpayers and tax professionals ¡°experienced more misery in 2022¡± due to paper processing delays and poor customer service. But the report also says the Internal Revenue Service made considerable progress in reducing the volume of unprocessed tax returns and correspondence and is poised to start the 2023 filing season in a stronger position.