| With IRS enforcement on the rise - more people than | | | | and false statements" and "attempt to evade or |
| ever will need expert and qualified IRS tax relief. If | | | | defeat tax." |
| you've put yourself in a situation for which you could | | | | The takeaway for you, the taxpayer, should be |
| be prosecuted on tax charges, there's something you | | | | obvious: Despite the alterations in policy and action that |
| should know: Your chances of convictions are high. | | | | often accompany a new government, the Obama |
| There are not many situations scarier than being in tax | | | | administration has chosen not to chain what has been |
| trouble. Whether you're worried about the tax man | | | | an increasingly aggressive IRS over the previous five |
| knocking at the door or staring down at the pages of | | | | years. Those of you with lingering back taxes should |
| a tax evasion indictment, there are few legal situations | | | | not hesitate to seek out quick and reliable tax relief |
| worse in American life. | | | | from a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution |
| Getting in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service | | | | Specialist. |
| can be a life-altering experience. That is an indisputable | | | | What's more, the odds are great that tomorrow's |
| fact. Even more troubling, data suggests you're more | | | | enforcement will become even more aggressive. |
| likely to be indicted and convicted on tax charges | | | | The primary reason: money. |
| today than you were five years ago. | | | | For fiscal-year 2010, Congress increased the IRS's |
| In fact, available data shows the Obama administration | | | | enforcement budget to a record $5.5 billion -- meaning |
| is just as aggressive in tax enforcement as the Bush | | | | more agents for more audits, more investigations, and |
| administration was. | | | | ultimately more of a reason to obtain IRS tax relief. |
| Using data from the Internal Revenue Service and the | | | | Of course, that extra money in the enforcement |
| Department of Justice, the Transactional Records | | | | budget comes on top of the IRS's recent agreements |
| Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University | | | | with credit card companies and Swiss banks to open |
| reviewed IRS referral and DOJ conviction numbers for | | | | up the account information for U.S. taxpayers who |
| tax cases in fiscal-year 2009 -- Obama's first year in | | | | might be stashing cash in offshore bank accounts. |
| office. | | | | So why bet against the government when the stakes |
| What TRAC found should be eyebrow-lifting to those | | | | include your freedom and livelihood? |
| who suspected the Obama administration might go | | | | There are plenty of examples of people who did bet |
| easier on tax cheats. | | | | against the government. They've lost. |
| Tax case convictions in fiscal-year 2009 were on par | | | | Just last month, a Florida man received a 51-month |
| with those in fiscal-year 2008, the Bush administration's | | | | prison sentence for tax evasion, while across the |
| last year in office, and in fact there were 10 percent | | | | country in California a bookkeeper received a |
| more convictions in fiscal-year 2009 than there were | | | | 33-month sentence for wire fraud and evasion |
| just five years ago. | | | | Scared? Now might be a good time to call me for |
| The most frequently reported charges were "fraud | | | | some life saving IRS tax relief. |