Learn how to identify and prevent emerging IRS tax scams and fraudulent credit schemes to protect client data, maintain ethical compliance, and strengthen your credibility as a trusted tax professional.
By attending this presentation, participants will gain essential insights into the IRS’s 2025 ‘Dirty Dozen’ tax scams and false credit schemes, enhancing their ability to protect themselves, their organizations, and their clients. The session will provide guidance on recognizing and mitigating emerging threats - including social media-driven scams, phishing schemes, and unethical preparer conduct - while offering practical strategies to safeguard sensitive data and uphold professional ethics and due diligence standards. This knowledge is vital for navigating today’s increasingly complex tax environment, minimizing exposure to penalties and enforcement actions, and reinforcing one’s reputation as a trusted and compliant tax professional.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to identify the IRS’s 2025 Dirty Dozen tax scams and emerging false credit schemes that pose significant risks to taxpayers and professionals.
- You will be able to describe common tactics used in phishing attacks, social media-based fraud, and unethical preparer practices to better detect and prevent them.
- You will be able to explain the ethical and due diligence obligations required to safeguard confidential taxpayer data and maintain compliance with IRS and professional standards.
- You will be able to discuss practical strategies for mitigating fraud risk, protecting clients and organizations, and responding effectively to potential scam activity.
Agenda
- IRS Dirty Dozen Overview
- False Tax Credit Schemes
- Other Dangerous Schemes and Scams
- Consequences and Penalties
- Protecting Clients and Practices
- Reporting and Resources
- Beyond the Dirty Dozen - Other Abusive Schemes
- Closing Segment
Speakers
Elliott E. Lieb, CFE,
Lieb Consulting- Owner and operator of Lieb Consulting.
- Conducts financial fraud investigations, criminal tax defense, money laundering defense, Bank Secrecy Act defense, and other white-collar crime defense in collaboration with various accredited criminal attorneys, including providing expert witness testimony in money laundering and financial crimes.
- Contract instructor for the Multi-Jurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) program, teaching financial investigations and money laundering to law enforcement agencies and military personnel worldwide.
- Former IRS Criminal Investigator (Special Agent) — served as case agent, supervisor, Assistant Division Chief, Division Chief, and in other management roles across various field offices throughout the United States.
- Adjunct professor of Forensic Accounting at the University of Cincinnati Graduate School of Accounting; recipient of the Dean’s List of Teaching Excellence.
- Guest speaker for numerous local bar associations and universities.
- Holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Robert C. Webb,
Frost Brown Todd LLC- Member of Frost Brown Todd LLC’s white-collar, tax, and business litigation practices in Louisville, KY
- Represents individuals and corporations in criminal tax fraud, white-collar, and commercial litigation matters
- Has led the defense of federal and state criminal offenses at the investigatory, grand jury, and trial levels in such areas as criminal tax fraud, mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen goods, criminal and civil RICO, health care fraud, criminal antitrust, money laundering, gambling, and environmental matters
- Successfully represented a former Kentucky government official in a major tax fraud and mail fraud trial, as well as executives in a health care fraud and grand jury investigation
- Conducted internal investigations for public companies and has extensive experience in counseling clients on voluntary disclosure issues
- Worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., in the Civil Tax Litigation Division, and was a professor at Bellarmine College where he taught federal taxation of entities
- Has written numerous articles regarding criminal tax and white-collar matters
- Wrote the Criminal Tax Practice Monograph for the University of Kentucky College of Law
- LL.M. degree in taxation, Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C.
- Can be contacted at 502-589-5400, bwebb@fbtlaw.com, or http://www.frostbrowntodd.com/professionals-bob-webb.html
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for CPAs, accountants, CFOs, controllers, accounts payable professionals, tax managers, tax preparers, accounts payable professionals presidents, vice presidents, bookkeepers, and enrolled agents.
