April 1, 2011: A former McLean resident was charged with impeding the I.R.S., three counts of tax evasion, and two counts of failing to file corporate tax returns. The defendant used company money to pay personal expenses and used nominee bank accounts to hide funds.
 

March 23, 2011: A Virginia Beach tax return preparer pled guilty to preparing a false tax return. The defendant prepared thousands of false income tax returns by overstating clients’ itemized deductions for such items as medical expenses, and unreimbursed employee expense.
 

February 24, 2011: An income tax return preparer from Alexandria, Virginia pled guilty to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income tax return which included false deductions, losses and withholdings on her clients’ income tax returns resulting in tax losses totaling $305,138.
 

February 23, 2011: Four Swiss bankers were charged with helping U.S. taxpayers use secret accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere to evade U.S. income taxes. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by secreting funds in foreign bank accounts, failing to report the accounts on income tax returns and evading income taxes by failing to report income earned on the accounts.
 

January 20, 2011: A Virginia Beach income tax return preparer was indicted on 22 counts of preparing false and fraudulent income tax returns for clients by allegedly overstating and falsifying his clients’ itemized deductions for items such as medical expenses, unreimbursed employee expenses, investment expenses, and other miscellaneous expenses. The alleged overstated deductions resulted in a large tax loss and the payment of improper refunds.
 

November 29, 2010: A Newport News U.S. District Court Judge sentenced a defendant to 60 months in jail for embezzling more than $500,000 from his former employee and failing to pay taxes on the embezzled amount. The defendant previously entered guilty pleas to one count of bank fraud and one count of income tax evasion. The defendant formed a dummy corporation and caused his employer to pay fraudulent expense checks to the dummy corporation.
 

November 15, 2010: A Richmond individual was sentenced to 24 months in prison for her role in a fraudulent income tax return preparation business from 2003 through 2006 where 1066 income tax returns were prepared. The IRS investigation revealed more than $157,000 in illegal tax refunds claimed by falsifying income and deduction information on the returns.
 

November 12, 2010: A Northern Virginia business owner was sentenced to 19 months in prison for failing to account for and pay to the IRS more than $200,000 in withholdings from employees’ paychecks F.I.C.I. and federal income taxes.
 

October 26, 2010: A Hampton, Virginia defendant was sentenced to 18 months in prison for filing a false income tax return. The defendant embezzled more than $480,000 from his employer and failed to report the funds on his income tax returns from 2002 through 2008.