More people are being prosecuted for tax evasion.
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The number of criminal prosecutions referred by the Internal Revenue Service to the Justice Department has increased 23.4 percent during the Obama administration.
Prosecutions in fiscal year 2013 alone jumped 30.6 percent from the previous year, according to a new report by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Convictions for tax crimes under the Obama administration are also drawing slightly longer average prison terms, 27 months under Obama, compared to 25 months during the George W. Bush administration, according to information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
Among
U.S. federal judicial districts, Alaska registered the highest per
capita rate of IRS prosecutions, 53 per million people, compared with
6.4 prosecutions per million nationally. Next in line was the Middle
District of Alabama (Montgomery), with 30 per million, followed by the
District of Columbia with 27 per million.
For more details, see the report at http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/342/.
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The number of criminal prosecutions referred by the Internal Revenue Service to the Justice Department has increased 23.4 percent during the Obama administration.
Prosecutions in fiscal year 2013 alone jumped 30.6 percent from the previous year, according to a new report by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Convictions for tax crimes under the Obama administration are also drawing slightly longer average prison terms, 27 months under Obama, compared to 25 months during the George W. Bush administration, according to information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
For more details, see the report at http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/342/.
