Total Federal Tax Prosecutions According to U.S. Attorneys

Fiscal Year 1981 - 2004

Fiscal Year Total Tax
Prosecutions
(All Sources)
Tax
Prosecutions
from IRS
1981 1,548 1,470
1982 1,303 1,240
1983 1,140 1,077
1984 1,272 1,176
1985 1,323 1,180
1986 1,524 1,307
1987 1,462 1,316
1988 1,305 1,193
1989 1,289 1,152
1990 1,219 1,102
1991 1,200 1,106
1992 1,147 1,060
1993 1,159 1,064
1994 1,043 975
1995 1,005 900
1996 935 855
1997 993 936
1998 771 715
1999 831 739
2000 675 609
2001 605 547
2002 563 512
2003 538 474
2004* 594 546


Source: TRAC analysis of Justice Department records.
*Note: Since January 2004, the Justice Department has started withholding
lead charge information on roughly one in ten prosecutions. Additional
information is used to allocate these prosecutions to their lead charge.


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