IRS Criminal Investigation Releases Fiscal Year 2019 Annual Report.

The IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) Division's annual report highlights various successes and criminal enforcement actions taken in fiscal year 2019.

Key focuses of CI in fiscal year 2019 included cybercrimes, with an emphasis on virtual and crypto currencies; traditional tax investigations; international tax enforcement; employment tax; refund fraud; and tax-related identity theft. Other areas of emphasis included public corruption, corporate fraud and money laundering.

CI initiated 2,485 cases in fiscal year 2019, applying approximately 75 percent of its time to tax related investigations. The number of CI special agents dropped to 2,009 by the...

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