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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...

To purchase homes, expensive furniture and other valuables, alone they read like one-offs, a successful heist by an opportunistic criminal. but these are not isolated cases. to date, the u.s. government has already charged more than 2,000 defendants with pandemic-related fraud and are still investigating thousands more. the united states justice departments acting director for covid-19 fraud enforcement calls it an unprecedented amount of fraud. how could such enormous amounts of fundings be div...

Congress' move to shift $21.4 billion in funding away from the service as a condition for increasing the debt limit isn't deterring the tax agency from its plans.

A look at how filing season is going, five weeks in.

Congress's latest amendments to the federal False Claims Actdestroy the FCA's prior balance that protected federal taxpayerfunds while providing some restraints against abusive andprofiteering litigation. This enriches individual plaintiffs andtrial lawyers at the expense of the American taxpayer.

This was another challenging year for healthcare information security – but there's hope for the year ahead as technology and policy leaders promote new ideas to reduce risk and strengthen resilience.

As the saying goes, if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Case in point: Congress and the current financial crisis.

Two weeks ago, President Biden signed two laws extending the statute of limitations for civil and criminal fraud actions involving the Paycheck Protection Program...

/PRNewswire/ -- In July 2022, the IRS published a report on its Strategic Plan for the years 2022 through 2026. The report features many lofty goals, including...

Nothing is certain in life except death, taxes, and now, data breaches. Data breaches are almost an unavoidable cost of doing business in a globally connected world. As if being...