Crackdown on fraudulent tax return preparers: recent criminal and civil enforcement against fraudulent tax preparers has been highlighted in stepped-up activity by the Treasury and Justice departments.

Journal of Accountancy,  August, 2007  by Pace, Ryan H.

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Total investigations initiated by the IRS'S Criminal Investigations division rose in fiscal year 2006 from the previous year, as did the division's time spent on tax-related investigations, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported in June. TIGTA noted that the present enforcement climate represents a reaction to an erosion of the Service's enforcement activities in the late 1990s and a recognition that enforcement had drifted away from tax compliance to investigating related violations of money laundering and organized crime.

A similar recommitment within the ...

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