The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 2 - Avoid Falling Prey: The Dirty Dozen and Other Trending Tax Scams
El 4/11/24, el IRS concluyó la publicación de la Docena Sucia 2024. La Docena Sucia es una campaña anual de concientización del contribuyente que comenzó en 2002 y enumera doce estafas y esquemas que colocan a los...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) has recently devoted great attention to detecting, investigating, and prosecuting fraud, particularly as it relates to the Employee Retention Tax Credit (“ERC”) post-COVID. On a webinar...more
On 3/20/23, the IRS launched its 2023 “Dirty Dozen” list with new warnings each day about common scams taxpayers (individuals and business) should avoid. Some items on the Dirty Dozen list are new, and some make a return...more
El IRS concluyó su lista de Estafas de la Docena Sucia (“Dirty Dozen”) del 2022 recomendando a los contribuyentes a estar atentos y evitar ser engañados por las estrategias de evasión fiscal....more
With tax season upon us, taxpayers and tax professionals need to know how to avoid falling prey to fraudulent scams. In this episode of The Presumption of Innocence, Matthew Adams and Matthew Lee, Co-Chairs of Fox’s...more
The IRS recently issued its third installment of the “Dirty Dozen” tax scams—a list of tax-related schemes ranging from fake charities to scams targeting seniors and immigrants. The Service is reminding “taxpayers, tax...more
Last week, we received a letter that purported to be from the “Tax Processing Unit – Tarrant County Public Judgment Records.” The letter surprised us because it was in a form that we had not previously encountered and we...more
The Internal Revenue Service has included tax return preparer fraud on its “Dirty Dozen” list of common tax scams for 2019 and offered tips to help taxpayers avoid unscrupulous tax preparers. With the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,...more
Despite a steep drop in tax-related identity theft in recent years, the Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers that the scam remains serious enough to earn a spot on the 2019 “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams. “Taxpayers...more
Tomorrow is the annual deadline for the filing of individual income tax returns for calendar year 2017. The Internal Revenue Service expects to receive approximately 32 million returns in the final days leading up to April...more
My violin was made in 1962 by a luthier named Umberto Lanaro, but it bears the label of Eligio Puccini and says it was made in 1947. Lanaro chose in effect to use Puccini’s identity when making my violin, as Lanaro...more
As part of its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams, the Internal Revenue Service warned taxpayers to avoid falsely inflating deductions or expenses on tax returns. Common areas targeted by unscrupulous tax preparers...more
The Internal Revenue Service has warned taxpayers to be alert to unscrupulous return preparers touting inflated tax refunds. According to the IRS, these scam artists frequently prey on older Americans, low-income taxpayers,...more
Today the Internal Revenue Service announced the third entry on its annual “dirty dozen” list of the tax schemes most commonly encountered by taxpayers during tax filing season. Even though instances of tax-related identity...more
Today the Internal Revenue Service announced the second entry on its annual “dirty dozen” list of the tax schemes most commonly encountered by taxpayers during tax filing season. The IRS said that aggressive phone scams where...more
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has reminded taxpayers to remain on “High Alert” during the coming tax filing season to avoid being scammed by criminals who impersonate Internal Revenue Service...more
2017 has reminded us that data security threats continue to evolve and that the stakes for companies can be very high if their data security programs fail to evolve as well. Before the recent announcement of Equifax’s...more
The IRS has recently warned employers of another scam targeting employee information. The IRS has learned that scammers are posing as internal executives and are requesting Forms W-2 and Social Security Numbers from payroll...more
We have previously warned consumers about IRS phone scams that defraud consumers. Basically, the fraudsters call unsuspecting victims over the telephone impersonating an IRS official, and intimidate the recipient of the...more
Although the IRS has warned taxpayers on multiple occasions about IRS phone scams, consumers continue to be victims. A lucrative scam for years, which according to the IRS, has cost victims more than $26 million since 2013,...more