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Up to $304B Lost to Tax Fraud, No IRS Antifraud Strategy

  • The Government Accountability Office estimated that tax fraud costs the federal government between $116 billion and $304 billion annually.
  • Auditors found that the Internal Revenue Service lacks an agency-wide antifraud strategy and a designated office to coordinate fraud-risk management.
  • The Internal Revenue Service partially agreed with the Government Accountability Office’s recommendations, noting that its Chief Tax Compliance Officer coordinates fraud initiatives and that it may consider an agency-wide strategy.
  • Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano disputed the characterization of the agency’s antifraud work as fragmented, saying responsibilities are distributed across organizations by design.
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Up to $304B lost to tax fraud, no IRS antifraud strategy

(The Center Square) – The federal government loses as much as $304 billion a year to tax fraud, and the IRS has no agency-wide strategy for stopping it, congressional auditors said in a report Friday.

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bloombergtax.com broke the news on Friday, September 25, 2026.
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