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IRS Criminal Tax Stamford CT: What causes an IRS audit to be referred for criminal prosecution in Stamford, CT and elsewhere?
We frequently represent taxpayers before the IRS during routine audits in Stamford, Connecticut, as well as criminal tax investigations and eggshell audits (civil audits where tax fraud exists but the IRS has not found it yet).  I am often asked what causes an IRS examiner to send a case to the criminal investigation division (“CI”)?
The Internal Revenue Manual (“IRM”) states that an IRS tax auditor should refer the case for criminal investigation when there are “firm indications of fraud.”
Great: so what does that mean?
There are a number of items that may raise an examiner’s suspicion of tax fraud: failure to report specific income items or entire streams of income/bank accounts.  Significant underreporting of income, or overstatement of expenses may raise badges of fraud.  Also odd taxpayer behavior or refusal to provide information may also cause concern for the civil tax examiner.
I can assure you that it can be any number of items or behaviors that trigger the fraud referral to CI.
So our advice to you, in Stamford, CT or elsewhere, is if there is any reason to be concerned about something on your tax return (or maybe not on your return!), say nothing to your accountant ... more

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