Sentence examples for tax prosecutions from inspiring English sources

Separate data from the Justice Department show a long trend down in federal tax prosecutions.

Several former government lawyers and law enforcement officers who worked with him on federal tax prosecutions submitted letters on his behalf.

Tax prosecutions brought as a result of I.R.S. investigations are about half what they were a decade ago, according to a Syracuse University study.

The department, citing United States court records, says that total federal tax prosecutions declined to 483 in 2003 from 1,431 in 1981.

The cases most often cited include tax prosecutions and other legal harassments of the owners of the newspaper Joong Ang Ilbo and the head of Korean Air.

Rod J. Rosenstein, a deputy assistant attorney general who supervises tax prosecutions, said that in 2003, the number of investigations and the filing of criminal tax charges both increased for the first time in years.

The case was the most prominent tax prosecution since the billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley was convicted of tax fraud in 1989.

In a separate tax prosecution, the authorities in California arrested George H. Jesson, left, and his wife, Trina, on tax evasion charges.

The Justice Department has for months declined requests to provide an official who would discuss its tax prosecution policies on the record.

His trial has become the most prominent income tax prosecution since the 1989 conviction of the billionaire New York hotelier, Leona Helmsley, who went to prison for improperly billing personal expenses to her business.

OCALA, Fla .— The most prominent tax prosecution in nearly two decades went to the jury Tuesday after defense lawyers argued that while a defendant, the actor Wesley Snipes, did in fact owe tens of millions of dollars in back taxes, interest and penalties, he had not committed a crime.