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IR-2023-49, March 20, 2023 ¡ª In a further warning to people and businesses, the Internal Revenue Service added widely circulating promoter claims involving Employee Retention Credits as a new entry in the annual Dirty Dozen list of tax scams.

Streamlining the Form 1023 ¨C A Success Story Sunita Lough, Commissioner Tax Exempt/Government Entities Division, discusses the history of Form 1023-EZ and the continuing benefits it provides to small organizations.

November 10, 2023 ¡ª A 16-count indictment and 16-count superseding indictment were unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Indonesian national Francius Marganda with securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and related conspiracy counts for running a Ponzi scheme from May 2019 to May 2021 that targeted hundreds of victim investors residing in more than 12 states including New York and in Indonesia. Marganda was extradited to the Eastern District of New York from Signapore yesterday and will be arraigned on November 13, 2023 before United States Chief Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom.

Dec. 11, 2024 ¡ª A federal grand jury returned an 18-count indictment yesterday charging Michael David Barker of Foster, with mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, and money laundering. The indictment was unsealed today following Barker¡¯s arrest by law enforcement officers.

Letter 106-C, Claim Partially Disallowed, is your legal notice that we partially disallowed, or denied, your claim for the tax period stated in the letter.

IR-2022-109, May 25, 2022 ¡ª The Internal Revenue Service made an important enhancement to the Where¡¯s My Refund? online tool this week, introducing a new feature that allows taxpayers to check the status of their current tax year and two previous years¡¯ refunds.

Feb. 14, 2025 ¡ª A Las Vegas business owner made his initial appearance in court yesterday for allegedly misrepresenting that his company was a profitable, up-and-running artificial intelligence company that mined cryptocurrency, verified cryptocurrency transactions, paid fixed rates of return on investments, and provided a 100% money back guarantee. In total, the defendant obtained approximately $24 million from at least 400 investors.

May 15, 2023 ¡ª United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that today, following a six-week trial, a jury has returned guilty verdicts on nine counts of the superseding indictment charging Phillip Roy Wasserman of Sarasota with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud and substantive counts of wire fraud and mail fraud. Wasserman faces a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment on each of the conspiracy, mail fraud, and wire fraud counts. The United States is also seeking a money judgment in the amount of at least $6.3 million, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Prior to trial, the tax counts in the superseding indictment were ordered to be tried separately at the request of Wasserman.

If your tax refund was reduced to pay for your spouse's debts, you may be able to request injured spouse relief to get some of it back.

March 28, 2023 ¡ª Leihinahina Sullivan of Lihue, Kauai, was sentenced today before United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright to 17 years in prison and three years of supervised release for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft related to multiple long-running fraudulent schemes. Sullivan previously pleaded guilty to these offenses in July 2021. She is also required to pay $3,396,035.15 in restitution to various victims and public and private entities and subject to a penalty of $2,012,41.92 in forfeiture for the criminal proceeds of her offenses. In sentencing Sullivan, Judge Seabright described the ¡°staggering scope, length, and complexity¡± of her criminal conduct.