The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued its “Dirty Dozen” tax scams list for 2010, which includes hiding income offshore and disguising corporate ownership—schemes that whistleblowers often expose.
“IRS agents continue to develop their investigations of these offshore tax avoidance transactions using information gained from over 14,700 voluntary disclosures received last year,” the IRS said in a statement.
The IRS said it is concerned about disguised corporate ownership because “such entities can be used to facilitate underreporting of income, fictitious deductions, non-filing of tax returns, participating in listed transactions, money laundering, financial crimes and even terrorist financing.”
