European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and strikes tax fraud sleuths making it harder to Gyp Uncle Sam by Edward Cowan Washington up Money leaves this is the unofficial motto o Uncle Sam s tax fraud sleuths and the key to one of the government s hottest Law enforcement drives. Gradually but surely the in rental Revenue service has been tightening its scrutiny of the 61 million individual and 1.2 million corporations who every year Ante up a portion of their earnings to Uncle Sam. More than so per cent of them Are honest. To help keep them that Way the service is bearing Down on the minority of tax Evad Era. Last year the government obtained indictments against 1.4& individuals for tax evasion 258 More than in 1360. Of the rates which went to trial the govern ment obtained 1,129 convictions this was 28 More than in i960. Conviction among those convicted ant jailed in the past two years were Bernard Goldfine. The Boston industrialist Goose Tat urn the pro basketball Whiz and Tony Accardo. Bucago rackets figure. In bygone years tax agents have brought to Book such Gangland big shots a Al Capone. Prank costello Johnny Dio and waxed Gordon. Today tax fraud is an important facet of the Justice department s drive against organized crime. Some gangsters against whom authorities could prove no other major offences were successfully prosecuted for tax evasion be cause Money leaves by that phrase veteran1 special agents of the Revenue service s intelligence division the ant i fraud outfit mean this it s practically impossible to wipe out All clues to a substantial sum of Money any one tries to hide from the tax col Lector officials acknowledge that not everybody who Gyps gets caught. And not everybody who gets caught is prosecuted for criminal fraud but let the sum be Large enough or the evasion repeated and chances Are Good intelligence division men will be following the Money s tracks to the taxpayer. Variety of tracks1 a track can be a lavish Vaca Tion by Jet plane to a foreign country a new fur coat newly bought securities or land a new car or very important Bank de posits. It even can be an item in a gossip column. An agent once read in i local newspaper about a businessman buying a seashore Home. This sounded like a High Standard of living for. Someone with the businessman s reported a Monte i that turned out to be the Case. The businessman was earning thousands More than he was re porting on his tax return. Another article alerted officials to income from counterfeit music records. Another provided p clue to kickbacks to buyers in the form of expensive merchandise. Kickbacks present tax agents with a More difficult problem than outright Cash payments. Kickbacks such As paid vacations entertainment it nightclubs gifts of or Coats Are taxable income. But the taxpayer invariably maintains these were incidental to a business operation and were not direct personal income. The Burden of proof in court is on the commonly the government tries to prove wilful evasion by exhibiting to a jury badges of fraud acts and omissions which Are highly suggestive that some thing is Wrons. Badges might be an unexplained increase in a person s net Worth overstatement of deductions alteration or destruction of records keeping a double set of books making false invoices covering up sources of income concealing assets and making false statements. Diplomatic huddle Adial Stevenson . Delegate to the United nations listens a president Sylvanus olympic of Togo Speaks Duroc or a meet Tbs at the York. The african Leader with president Kennedy in a one Man s Home another s Sand Castle use of private land for Public Parks stirs Washington up presi Dent Kennedy s new nationwide conservation program strikes at the heart of a controversy Over whether or not privately developed property should be acquired for Public recreation use. The National Park service con tends such property is needed for an expanded Federal Park system. Or. Kennedy in his recent conservation message to Congress said congressional approval last year of the Cape cod National sea Shore area should be regarded As the path breaker for Many other worthy Park land proposals Pend no before it was the Cape cod measures hat established precedent for including private developed property in the Federal Park system. The president noted that in most ases Parks presently maintained and operated by the Federal gov envoys to get glimpse of . 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