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IR-2024-306, Dec. 5, 2024 ¡ª Because identity thieves target the financial data of businesses and the self-employed using new schemes, the Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners today urged companies and individual taxpayers to review and update their security measures and practices to guard against the latest scams.

December 4, 2023 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M. Goldberg, the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters of the Justice Department¡¯s Tax Division, and Jim Lee, the Chief of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI), announced today the filing of criminal charges against Swiss Bank, Banque Pictet et Cie SA (¡°Banque Pictet¡± or the ¡°Bank¡±) for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $5.6 billion in 1,637 secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere and to conceal the income generated in those accounts from the IRS.

October 21, 2022 ¡ª Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Diane Mariani, of Taos, New Mexico, was sentenced on Oct. 19 to three months in prison and nine months on home detention for willful failure to collect or pay over tax. The Court further ordered Mariani to pay $203,137 as restitution for the Internal Revenue Service, and to pay an additional $150,000 fine. Mariani pleaded guilty on May 18.

November 29, 2022 ¡ª A Wisconsin man has been indicted for orchestrating a $35 million bank fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

April 25, 2023 ¡ª A San Antonio man was sentenced in a federal court in San Antonio Monday to 188 months in prison for wire fraud and tax fraud.

IR-2023-07, January 18, 2023 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today announced the appointment of nine new members to the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council.

Sept. 5, 2024 ¡ª The owner of Orange County-based temporary staffing companies pleaded guilty today to two federal criminal charges for willfully evading the payment of nearly $30 million in taxes, penalties and interest, assessed against him to the IRS as well as causing a false tax return to be filed with the IRS as part of defendant¡¯s efforts to conceal nearly $30 million in additional tax liabilities incurred by his staffing companies.

March 18, 2025 ¡ª A Miami man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring with others to defraud the United States by concealing millions of dollars in assets and income in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts.

April 3, 2025 ¡ª Today, U.S. Attorney Sean P. Costello announced criminal charges against seven defendants related to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme at the Water Works and Sewer Board of the City of Prichard (¡°Prichard Water Board¡±).

IR-2022-113, June 1, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today began its "Dirty Dozen" list for 2022, which includes potentially abusive arrangements that taxpayers should avoid.