The Acting Attorney General announced by memo dated 4/7/26, here, some initial details of the National Fraud Enforcement Division that President Trump created by Executive Order 14395, titled "Establishing the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud," here. In part relevant to tax crimes enforcement, the memo says (p. 2, bold-face supplied by JAT):
• Effective immediately, the Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division shall assume operational control of the Criminal Division's Tax Section, the Health Care Fraud Unit, and the Market, Government, and Consumer Fraud Unit, and shall establish the priorities and direct the allocation of resources within them. During this interim period, the existing supervisory chains responsible for the above-named units and section will continue to exercise supervisory authority for their personnel, subject to oversight and direction from the Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division.
Relative to the priorities of criminal tax enforcement, does this re-alignment (more like a shuffling of the deck) accomplish anything meaningful, unless the signal is to use more criminal tax resources to support nontax criminal initiatives rather than to support the tax system.
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