Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Who’s getting busted

The Internal Revenue Service office in Las Vegas said it made 71 criminal referrals for prosecution in 1994. Listed below is a breakdown of the types of businesses and people who tax agents investigated:

* HIDDEN INCOME: 47 percent of those investigated were under suspicion for financial compliance. Among them were construction workers, tax protesters and those accused of health care, bankruptcy and insurance fraud.

* DRUGS: 13 percent were related to the sale of narcotics, where a person was accused of failing to pay taxes on his income from drug trafficking.

* ORGANIZED CRIME: 28 percent had connections to organized crime.

* OTHER CRIME: 12 percent covered all other illegal activity.

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