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When the IRS prosecutes, tax evasion is not always the only charge (if it's charged at all). In fact, there are cases where the person who has been found guilty of one crime may also be charged with violating other laws.

Let's say you're married and you file a "married filing jointly" return, since you want to take advantage of the unique tax benefits (lower taxes than other filing statuses, higher standard deductions, and other tax benefits that don't apply to other statuses) offered by this particular filing status.

Southern hospitality and the Internal Revenue Service might seem like an unlikely combination but for Cary and Angela Bryson, a husband and wife team that co-founded the Bryson Law Firm, LLC it's the only way to do business.

Richard Hatch gained fame in the year 2000 as being the first winner of NBC's popular reality game show "Survivor".

Yes. The IRS can take your Social Security to satisfy a tax debt.

In fact, in July 2000, not only did the new Federal Payment Levy Program allow the IRS to dip into some Social Benefits paid to you, but it can also money that you've received from:

When the IRS prosecutes, tax evasion is not always the only charge (if it's charged at all).

Depending on who you ask, some people may say that tax avoidance is either "smart business" or it's "immoral".

Can you guess what has become the drastic "collection method of choice" for the IRS in recent years?

As of April 30, 2011 The IRS had identified 775,723 tax returns with $4.6 billion claimed in fraudulent refunds and prevented the issuance of $4.4 billion of those fraudulent tax refunds.  That is a prevention rate of nearly 96%.  This represents a 171% increase in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified during the same period in 2010.

History has its share of famous (and infamous) people who have made attempts to cheat the IRS and paid the price...