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IR-2022-12, January 13, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged taxpayers to use IRS online tools and resources to find the information they need to be ready to file their 2021 federal tax returns, including important special steps related to Economic Impact Payments and advance Child Tax Credit payments.

April 15, 2024 ¡ª On April 12, a Florida woman was arrested today on an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on April 4 in Miami that charged her with filing false tax returns.

June 2, 2022 ¡ª U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Joshua Maywalt of Tampa to five years and five months in federal prison for healthcare fraud, aggravated identity theft, filing a false income tax return, and failing to file an income tax return. As part of his sentence, the court also entered an order forfeiting $2,257,029.86 and real property located at 5346 Northdale Boulevard in Tampa, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. Maywalt had pleaded guilty on December 1, 2021.

April 16, 2024 ¡ª A New Jersey man was sentenced yesterday to 29 months in prison for evading taxes and not filing income tax returns.

April 14, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Williamsburg man with nine counts of tax fraud.

IR-2023-46, March 15, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers that the Where's My Refund? tool on IRS.gov is the most convenient way to check the status of 2022, 2021 and 2020 tax refunds. IRS2Go, the mobile app, offers another way for users to check their refund status.

Oct. 3, 2024 ¡ª Tammy Bushnell and Scott Bushnell of Dubois, Wyoming, were sentenced yesterday to eight months of home confinement with three years of probation for conspiracy to defraud the United States by underreporting gross income and filing a false tax return.

March 12, 2025 ¡ª Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, a 42-count indictment was unsealed charging Damaris Beltre, formerly a tax preparer in Freeport, New York, with wire fraud, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, money laundering and aggravated identity theft, for her role in allegedly preparing hundreds of false individual tax returns that caused a total of approximately $12 million in losses to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Payroll Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 1, 2025 ¡ª Two roofing company owners were indicted for their failure to file tax returns and pay tax on income, U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced.

October 17, 2022 ¡ª The owner of a local paving company was sentenced today for tax evasion in connection with a seven-year scheme to underreport income on his tax returns.