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IR-2024-63, March 6, 2024 — The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers they’re generally required to report all earned income on their tax return, including income earned from digital asset transactions, the gig economy and service industry as well as income from foreign sources.

IR-2025-20, Jan. 31, 2025 — The Internal Revenue Service and partners around the nation today celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) with the launch of this year’s EITC Awareness Day campaign.

March 4, 2024 — Cuong Chi Quan, also known as “Roger Quan,” was sentenced last week to 10 months in prison for crimes related to a scheme to underreport his income by nearly $4.5 million, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Kareem Carter, Special Agent in Charge of IRS–Criminal Investigation's (IRS-CI) Washington D.C. Field Office. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, United States District Judge.

IR-2023-35, March 1, 2023 — The Internal Revenue Service reminds taxpayers of their reporting and potential tax obligations on income from the gig economy and service industry, transactions from digital assets, and foreign sources or holding certain foreign assets.

August 21, 2023 — A Texas man pleaded guilty today to evading his federal income taxes.

September 16, 2022 — A Los Angeles man was sentenced in federal court today to 38­ months in prison for his participation in BitConnect, a massive fraudulent cryptocurrency investment scheme, which defrauded thousands of investors from the United States and abroad.

April 25, 2023 — Roger Chi Quan, pleaded guilty to crimes related to a scheme to underreport his 2017 business income by over $4 million, announced United States Attorney Ismail J. Ramsey and Kareem Carter, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the IRS - Criminal Investigation Washington D.C. Field Office. The guilty plea was accepted by the Honorable Edward J. Davila, United States District Court.

January 23, 2023 — Tax season takes place January 23 through April 18, and IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) reminds U.S. citizens and green card holders living abroad to follow the same rules for paying taxes as if they were residing in the U.S.

December 4, 2023 — Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M. Goldberg, the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Jim Lee, the Chief of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (CI), announced today the filing of criminal charges against Swiss Bank, Banque Pictet et Cie SA (“Banque Pictet” or the “Bank”) for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $5.6 billion in 1,637 secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere and to conceal the income generated in those accounts from the IRS.

May 21, 2025 — A former defense contractor pleaded guilty today to tax crimes related to his scheme to defraud the United States and evade taxes on income that he earned from his contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense.