The taxpayers are busy knocking their heads to meet the deadline, which expires today. On the other hand, the IRS is also trying hard to meet the deadline of bringing criminal charges against tax offenders, as the six years statute of limitations runs out.



As of now, in this fiscal year the IRS has already started 926 investigations and 486 have already been convicted. In the last fiscal year the agency had conducted 4,269 criminal investigations and most of them either convicted or faced indictments.



Critics are of the view that the IRS rush to bring criminal charges for two reasons. Some are filed in order meet the statute of limitations and some are filed, just to be covered in media. However, the IRS openly claims that prosecute offenders because it acts as a deterrent to other taxpayers.



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