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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 department's acting director for covid-19 fraud enforcement calls it an unprecedented amount of fraud. how could such enormous amounts of fundings be divvied out unnoticed? investigators are attributing it to the government's eagerness to provide quick...
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.