Since his return to office, President Donald Trump's slashing of federal jobs like those in the Internal Revenue Service could lead to more dishonest tax returns this tax season. After Trump launched ...

Cheating on your taxes is a form of high-stakes gambling. You might catch a break and evade suspicion, but the IRS is incentivized to go after those Americans who don’t pay what they owe — an amount ...

Admitted tax cheat Bradley Birkenfeld helped IRS bust UBS. Sept. 11, 2012 — -- An ex-banker and convicted tax cheat who told the IRS how his employer, UBS, helped thousands of wealthy clients ...

March 13, 2006 — -- If you're dreading tax day, consider this: Thousands of tax cheats who owe the government millions in back taxes are getting paid with your tax dollars -- in federal contracts ...

Key lawmakers unveiled a bill Tuesday aiming to crack down on wealthy tax dodgers hiding money overseas. The bill would impose new reporting requirements on foreign financial institutions doing ...

As the Obama administration scrambles to tighten tax loopholes, the strategies for dodging income taxes continue to evolve. A recent report from Bankrate Inc. in North Palm Beach, Fla., uncovered such ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Last month, in an exceedingly rare act of ...

A convicted tax cheat was pardoned by President Trump after his mother attended a $1 million-a-plate fundraising dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Paul Walczak pleaded guilty to tax crimes shortly after the 2024 ...