IRS-CI’s Annual Report And The State Of Enforcement

December 10, 2020  |  The Insider: White Collar Defense and Securities Enforcement

On November 16, the IRS Criminal Investigation division issued its annual report for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, which touts recent achievements and may foreshadow a rise in IRS enforcement. The report highlighted IRS-CI’s noteworthy achievements last year, including identifying over $2.3 billion in tax fraud, which represents an increase of $500 million (almost 28 percent) from fiscal year 2019. The report further noted that IRS-CI had initiated 1,598 investigations and recommended 945 prosecutions, up slightly from the previous year, when it initiated 1,500 investigations and recommended 942 prosecutions, but not quite returning to 2018 levels of 1,714 investigations and 1,050 recommended prosecutions. report noted that IRS-CI now has 2,030 Special Agents. While that represents a modest (1%) increase over the prior fiscal year, it is still below the 2,100 agents in place in May 2019, when IRS-CI was pushing to expand its ranks. [...]

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