as mike said, i'm sallie cooper, of operations, policy and support for irs criminal investigation. and one thing we were talking about as we were listening to all the panels is there is a permeation of scams or commonalities between the scams and every panel that it seems to be presenting today. as far as criminal investigations mission, ci is the investigative arm of the internal revenue service. we support the overall mission of irs but we enforce the criminal statutes relative to tax administration and related financial crimes in order to 0 encourage and achieve voluntary compliance with the internal revenue code. once the investigation is complete we afford a recommendation for prosecution to our partners at the department of justice, specifically we start with the tax division who reviews our work and hopefully authorizes for us to go forward with prosecution and they then in turn refer it over to the respective u.s. attorney's office. and carol is going to give a little bit about her mission. >> the tax division at the justice department does review all criminal referrals fro

>> we're going to want to -- >> tax day is approaching and the panelists to my immediate left, sally cooper, director of operations for the internal revenue service criminal investigation and to her left is carol ide from the department of justice. they're going to talk about common tax scams that consumers and individuals should watch out for as they are preparing to file their tax return. thank you very much. >> good afternoon. thank you for having me on the panel. i am sally coo verbally with the acting director of operations policy and support for irs criminal investigation. one thing we were talking about as we were listening to all the panels is there's a permeated of scams or commonality between the scams in every panel presenting today. as far as criminal investigations, c i is the investigative arm of the internal revenue service. we enforce the criminal statutes relative to tax administration and related financial crimes in order to encourage voluntary compliance with the internal revenue. once the investigation is complete, we forward a recommendation for prosecution to our partn

as mike said i am sallie cooper, support for irs criminal investigation.one thing we are talking about is listening to the panels is that there is a permeation and scan and commonalities between the scams in every panel it seems to be presenting today. as far as criminal investigations, ci is the investigative arm of the internal revenue service. we support the overall mission of irs, but we enforce the criminal statute relative to tax administration and related financial crimes in order to encourage and achieve voluntary compliance of the internal revenue code. once the investigation is complete, we afford a recommendation for prosecution to our partners at the department of justice and with the tax division to reduce our work and authorizes for us to go forward with prosecution and they can interns prefer it over to their respective u.s. attorney's office. ankara was going to give a little bit about her mission. >> the tax division does reveal all criminal referrals from the internal revenue service, criminal investigative division. our attorneys to a lo

as mike said i'm sally cooper. i'm the acting director of operations policy and support for irs criminal investigation. and one thing we were talking about as we were listening to all the panels is that there is a permutation of commonality of scams of every panel that seems to be presenting today. as far as criminal investigation's mission, c.i. is the investigative arm of the internal revenue service. we support the overall mission of -- northern to achieve voluntary compliance with the internal revenue code. once the investigation is complete, we forward a recommendation for prosecution to our partners at the department of justice specifically we start with the tax division who reviews our work and hopefully authorizes for us to go forward with the prosecution and they then in turn refer it over to the respective u.s. attorney's office and carol was going to give a little bit about her mission. >> the tax division at the justice department does review all criminal referrals from the internal revenue service crim

the panelists are sallie cooper, the director of operations from the irs revenue -- the irs.hen we have carol id, from the department of justice. they will talk about, and tax scams that consumers should watch out for. -- common tax scams that co nsumers should look out for. >> thank you for having me on the panel. i am sallie cooper, the acting director of the policy and support for irs criminal investigation. one thing we were talking about as we were listening to all the panels is that there is a poor nation of scams we did permission of scams in every panel that seems to be presenting -- presented. as far as the criminal investigations miss chen, we are the investigative arm of the irs. we support the mission of the irs, but we enforce the criminal statutes relative to tax administration and relate to a financial crime in order to encourage and achieve voluntary compliance with the internal revenue code. once the investigation is complete, we will wrap -- we record a recommendation for prosecutors at the department of justice. we start with the tax people who authorized f

as mike said, ibm sallie cooper, the acting director of operations policy and support for the irs criminal investigation, and one thing we were talking about as we were listening to all the panel is there is a per mediation of scams commonalities between the scams in every panel it seems to be presenting today as far as the criminal investigation division the cia is the investigative arm of the internal revenue service. christopher the mission of the irs would be read for the criminal statute relative to the tax administration and related financial crime in order to encourage and achieve voluntary compliance with the internal revenue code. once the investigation is complete, we have a recommendation for prosecution to our partners at the department of justice specifically we start with the tax division who refuse our work and hopefully authorizes for us to go forward with prosecution, and they then in turn referred it over to the respective u.s. attorney's office and carol was going to get a little bit about her mission. the tax division of the justice department does review all criminal r