IRS criminal investigations usually begin when IRS special agents (including revenue agents or officers) believe the information they have reflects possible tax fraud. These investigations may also already be underway by other law enforcement agencies or by the United States Attorney Offices across the Country.
The IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) division classifies each investigation as one of the following:
- Abusive Return Preparer Enforcement
This type of fraud typically involves preparers preparing and filing false income tax returns, with inflated business expenses, false deductions, and excessive exemptions. - Fraud Involving Bankruptcy
- These crimes involve significant fraud in bankruptcy. The IRS is a considerable creditor in many such proceedings, so its interests must be protected.
- Abusive Tax Schemes
These schemes originally looked like foreign trust arrangements or abusive domestic arrangements, but over time have evolved into technical setups that take advantage of debit and credit cards issued by offshore financial institutions. They also involve issues with financial secrecy law related to foreign jurisdictions.
- Gaming
Bookmaking, numbers, and some charitable gaming operations are significant areas of compliance concern. These investigations look into the illegal gaming industry and aim to eliminate this unlawful behavior. - Fraud involving Healthcare
Perpetrators of this fraud often develop schemes to financially benefit from false mental health, billings, chiropractic, nursing home, staged accidents, and patient referral schemes. - General Fraud
These investigations look into violations of financial and tax law crimes. This can include those who intentionally do not comply with requirements to file tax returns or those who pose a severe threat to the tax administration. - Identity Theft
This includes investigations into fraud related to identity theft. - Money Laundering & Bank Secrecy Act
This crime involves fraud related to numerous financial transactions worldwide.
- Non-Filer Enforcement
Some people believe that taxes are voluntary. As a result, courts continuously impose financial penalties for bringing such frivolous arguments. - Narcotics Investigations
These investigations include documenting and tracking down financial leads that allow investigators to go after narcotics organizations. - Public Corruption Crimes
These crimes include various criminal offenses like embezzlement, extortion, illegal kickbacks, subsidy fraud, tax fraud, and bank fraud. - Questionable Refund Program
This is a nationwide program designed to find fraudulent returns and stop payment of these false refunds.
These tax investigations often involve a thorough and detailed evidence gathering process. These special agents are thus considered experts in their field, especially against tax fraud, criminal tax activity, and other tax problems.
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