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Sept. 30, 2024 ¡ª The U.S. Attorney¡¯s Office for the Southern District of Florida remains a leader in COVID-19 pandemic relief prosecutions, holding a range of actors accountable for these crimes. Over this summer alone, the district has charged 17 individuals with COVID-19 relief fraud cases, with scheme amounts totaling over $21 million.

November 30, 2023 ¡ª Ronald S. Zieve, the owner of Hair Restoration Specialists, Inc. (¡°HRS¡±), and Marshall Boyd, the co-director of HRS, have each pleaded guilty to one count of filing a false tax return. Since 2018, Zieve deliberately failed to report approximately $3.2 million in income, and Boyd deliberately failed to report approximately $790,000 in income.

IR-2021-223, November 15, 2021 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service today launched a new online tool designed to help U.S. withholding agents comply with their reporting and withholding responsibilities with respect to IRS Form 1042-S, Foreign Person¡¯s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding.

Jan. 16, 2024 ¡ª Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Thomas Fattorusso, the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging Ai Zhen Xu with criminal tax offenses.

IR-2024-187, July 15, 2024 ¡ª The IRS issued a consumer alert today following bad advice circulating on social media about a non-existent ¡°Self Employment Tax Credit¡± that¡¯s misleading taxpayers into filing false claims.

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-2022-45, March 1, 2022 ¡ª The IRS reminds taxpayers of their reporting and potential tax obligations from working in the gig economy, making virtual currency transactions, earning foreign-source income or holding certain foreign assets.

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.