By Zak Kostro

An Alabama tax preparation business owner and several of her employees participated in a scheme to submit false tax returns to the IRS seeking more than $177 million in fraudulent federal tax refunds, federal prosecutors said.

By Kat Lucero

An Illinois federal judge dismissed a skin care corporate group's $8.3 million tax refund suit, finding she lacked jurisdiction to review its amended returns claiming business deductions because those filings did not use the company's new name after a 2018 merger.

By Zak Kostro

The government asked the Federal Circuit to overturn a U.S. Court of Federal Claims decision allowing a taxpayer to recover penalties and interest he sought refunds for during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the claims court wrongly interpreted a statutory 60-day extension as having lasted over three and a half years.

By Zak Kostro

The Fifth Circuit upheld the U.S. Small Business Administration's denial of a Texas law firm's bid for forgiveness of a Paycheck Protection Program loan of about $249,000 due to the firm's failure to disclose a pending criminal complaint against its owner.

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Tax Court rejected a man's bid to claim a COVID-19-era tax rebate credit Thursday because he didn't provide a Social Security number on his return, instead using an individual taxpayer identification number.

By Kat Lucero

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims paused reviewing luxury automaker BMW's $38.4 million tax refund suit until an appeals court issues a decision in a similar case over the tolling of a COVID-19-era filing deadline.