The IRS wants to increase the number of cases referred from audits and the civil side of its operation to its Criminal Investigation division.
Currently those fraud referrals comprise about 7% of the division’s caseload, said Don Fort, chief of CI at the Internal Revenue Service. There are efforts underway to increase that number, Fort said, noting that this is also a priority for IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. Fort spoke June 21 at a tax controversy forum hosted by the New York University School of Professional Studies.
- Richard E. Zuckerman, principal deputy assistant attorney general at Department of ...
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