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Enforcement Statistics - Criminal Investigation (CI) Enforcement Strategy

 

How to Interpret Criminal Investigation Data:

Since actions on a specific investigation may cross fiscal years, the data shown in cases initiated may not always represent the same universe of cases shown in other actions within the same fiscal year.

  FY 2002  FY 2003  FY 2004 

FY 2005 

FY 2006

FY 2007

 FY 2008 FY 2009 FY 2010 FY
2011
               
Investigations Initiated              
 Tax Investigations 2466  2446  2163  2631 2445 2516 2283 2612 2889 2682
Other Financial Crimes 1440  1555  1754  1638 1462 1695 1466 1509 1817 2038
Total 3906  4001  3917  4269 3907 4211 3749 4121 4706 4720
               
Prosecution Recommendations              
Tax Investigations 1025  1353  1461  1454 1351 1430 1297 1278 1507 1610
Other Financial Crimes 1108  1188  1576  1405 1369 1407 1488 1292 1527 1800
Total 2133  2541  3037  2859 2720 2837 2785 2570 3034 3410
               
Indictments/ Informations              
Tax Investigations 954  1036  1114  1195 1169 1126 1171 1141 1250 1325
Other Financial Crimes 970  1092  1375  1211 1150 1197 1376 1194 1395 1673
Total 1924  2128  2489  2406 2319 2323 2547 2335 2645 2998
               
Sentenced              
Tax Investigations 1023  835  855  1015 996 1112 1016 1113 1054 1162
Other Financial Crimes 1178  933  922 1080 1024 1011  941 1116 1118 1044
Total 2201  1768  1777  2095 2020 2123 1957 2229 2172 2206
               
Special Agents 2903  2805  2796  2843 2804 2675 2617 2725 2751  2730

Footnotes:    
Tax Investigations include all violations of the criminal statutes under Title 26, as well as other federal criminal violations whose under-lying purpose was circumvention of the Internal Revenue laws.
Other financial crimes include all money laundering and currency crimes violations not specified under tax investigations.     
(See list of U.S. Code Statutes for which CI has jurisdiction.)

Source: Criminal Investigation Management Information System (CIMIS) 

Enforcement Strategy

Criminal Investigation (CI),

Tax Fraud Alerts
 


Page Last Reviewed or Updated: November 10, 2011