Specific Statutory Lead Charge on
Tax Prosecutions Resulting from IRS Criminal Referrals

Fiscal Year Total Tax
Prosecutions
Tax Evasion
(26 USC 7201)
Willful Failure
To File
(26 USC 7203)
Other Title 26
Lead Charge
1980 1,681 518 516 647
1981 1,470 531 514 425
1982 1,240 452 383 405
1983 1,077 380 385 312
1984 1,176 403 406 367
1985 1,180 452 398 330
1986 1,307 502 402 403
1987 1,316 548 344 424
1988 1,193 502 295 396
1989 1,152 497 272 383
1990 1,102 464 278 360
1991 1,106 436 247 423
1992 1,060 397 237 426
1993 1,064 429 247 388
1994 975 375 197 403
1995 900 320 208 372
1996 855 305 186 364
1997 936 372 170 394
1998 715 297 147 271
1999 739 290 108 341
2000 609 247 64 298
2001 547 187 61 299
2002 512 200 56 256
2003 474 198 30 246
2004* 546 215 74 257

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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