Taxpayers generally “go to jail” on tax charges only when criminal activities have been involved. Find information about the criminal tax prosecutions the Treasury undertakes. Compare data for the last year of information available from the IRS and for five years prior to that.

How many criminal tax charges are initiated in a year? How much time does a criminal tax case take from the filing of charges to disposition by the IRS or a court? What issues tend to be the focus of a criminal tax prosecution? How much additional tax, interest, and penalty revenue does the Treasury collect due to its criminal prosecutions? Summarize your findings for your classmates in no more than four PowerPoint slides.