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April 10, 2023 ¡ª An Orange County tax preparer pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for participating in schemes that caused nearly $3.8 million in losses to the United States government, including one orchestrated by a corrupt social worker who stole his clients' identities to fraudulently obtain tax refunds, welfare benefits and credit cards.

IR-2022-210, December 1, 2022 ¡ª As part of a broader effort to increase security, the Internal Revenue Service and the Security Summit partners today reminded taxpayers they could get extra protection starting in January by joining the agency¡¯s identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN) program.

IR-2022-192, October 28, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today released a new set of tax gap estimates on tax years 2014 through 2016 showing the estimated gross tax gap increased to $496 billion, a rise of over $58 billion from the prior estimate.

IR-2022-69, March 25, 2022 ¡ª The IRS today reminded retirees who turned 72 during the last half of 2021 that, in most cases, Friday, April 1, 2022, is the last day to begin receiving payments from Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs), 401(k)s and similar workplace retirement plans.

IR-2024-185, July 11, 2024 ¡ª As part of continuing compliance efforts under the Inflation Reduction Act, the Internal Revenue Service today announced the agency has surpassed the $1 billion mark in collections from high-wealth taxpayers with past-due taxes.

October 20, 2023 ¡ª A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging five defendants with a conspiracy to illegally acquire machineguns and other regulated firearms.

April 7, 2023 ¡ª Five individuals were sentenced this week to prison for their roles in a $1 billion biofuel tax conspiracy: Lev Aslan Dermen, aka Levon Termendzhyan, was sentenced to 40 years; Jacob Kingston, was sentenced to 18 years; Isaiah Kingston, was sentenced to 12 years; Rachel Kingston, was sentenced to seven years; and Sally Kingston, was sentenced to six years.

July 23, 2024 ¡ª Janet Yamanaka Mello, the civilian Army employee who stole over $108 million from a grant program designed to provide services to military dependents and their families was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing a false tax return.

Sept. 5, 2024 ¡ª A Riverside County man pleaded guilty today to scheming to defraud the IRS out of more than $2.1 million via the issuing of fake W-2 forms and to fraudulently obtaining nearly $1 million of COVID-19 economic relief loans.

June 20, 2024 ¡ª A Fort Smith man, Neil Ravi Mehta was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $659,825.52 in restitution, on one count of possession of an unregistered firearm that was a destructive device, one count of fraud and false statements related to tax returns, and one count of false declaration before a court.