Business Tax Fraud

According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the favorite form of tax evasion in the United States happens to be underreporting income. This happens when a taxpayer either claims less money than they actually made or they claim more deductions, exemptions and credits than...

Fraudsters tend to see government benefit programs as a smorgasbord serving up an abundance of free money. A business owner, who operated six substance abuse counseling centers in Oklahoma, received more than $1.5 million in Medicaid reimbursements she did not deserve. It is reported that...

The Las Vegas strip is world renown for gambling, shopping, fine dining, entertainment and nightlife, which includes more than 20 strip clubs. The former owner of Crazy Horse Too, a Las Vegas, Nevada strip club, ran out of luck when federal authorities, who had...

What lies at the heart of all fraud is the desire to enrich one's own life at the expense of others. In an elaborate and sophisticated tax fraud scheme, a restaurant owner in Arizona used illegal aliens and the federal government to amass a...

Among fraudsters, the most dangerous perpetrators are those who have a professional familiarity with the system they are trying to defraud. The latest example of those who see fraud as just business as usual comes to us via a press release from the U.S....

When you think about minions, usually a cute yellow blob that loves bananas and wears blue jean overalls comes to mind. Even though the popular animated figures assist a former professional criminal portrayed in a popular children's movie, the fictional characters are generally seen...

Filmmaking is a risky business and in order to get investors to commit to a project, movie producers often look for tax incentives to entice a production company to come to a particular location to film. Company executives are usually sent in to hire...

A Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is responsible for multiple things, including controllership duties. This requires the presentation and reporting of accurate and timely historical company financial information. The CFO of a San Francisco Area-based home health care and hospice business failed to carry out...

The term "ambulance chaser" refers to lawyers who help clients to obtain damages related to a personal injury. The man at the center of today 's "Fraud of the Day" could be called a "fraud chaser" because he used his ambulance company to chase...

Fraudsters are always coming up with new and innovative ways to carry out their crimes, however, today's "Fraud of the Day" shines the spotlight on a North Carolina businessman who used a simple and oft used technique to hide his fraudulent acts. He thought...