Accounting for Managers
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Accounting for Managers
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195 Webster10.qxd 8/29/2003 10:23 AM Page 195 External Fraud While you’re looking for fraud situations within the business operation, there’s an external fraud lurking that could well sink your business—credit cards. If your business takes credit cards, you may find that credit card chargebacks can be serious enough to sink you. So, the trick is to avoid credit card fraud. First, all card issuers now have premium software that can help in recognizing fraud patterns. Today, most online fraud comes from one of four groups— friendly, opportunistic, organized, and internal. The friendly fraud happens when a legitimate cardholder lends the card to a friend to order something and says it never arrived. The merchant still suffers the chargeback. The oppor- Accounting for Managers 196 Other Employment Tax Evasion Schemes Here are some of the other more prevalent wrinkles for evading employment taxes. Pyramiding employment taxes is when a business withholds taxes from its employees but intentionally fails to pay them to the IRS and the state. Bankruptcy is a way out for the pyramiding masters.That way, they can discharge accrued liabilities and then start a new busi- ness with a new name and do it all over again. Employee leasing is legal but it can be abused. A company contracts with a firm to handle all administrative, personnel, and payroll services for its employees, who are then considered leased to the company. The employee-leasing firm then defaults on paying employment and/or withholding taxes to the IRS or the state. Suddenly, poof! The firm dis- appears, leaving unpaid employment taxes and unhappy clients and employees. Paying employees in cash is a common way of evading income and employment taxes.This is a particularly attractive option for young employees.The government loses tax revenue, of course, but the greater loss could be to the employees, whose future Social Security or Medicare benefits are reduced. With failing to file payroll tax returns or filing false payroll tax returns, the company just fails to file employment tax returns or understates wages when it files returns so it pays a lower tax. Webster10.qxd 8/29/2003 10:23 AM Page 196 tunistic fraud happens when someone finds a card or some valid payment information and uses it to joyride. This is the kind of threshold experience that could lead the beneficiary to make more organized attempts. I once stupidly left a card at a service station, in a pump reader. I paid for about four fill-ups before I got the card cancelled. The individual wisely didn’t try to use the card at anything but the most anonymous card transaction. Then there’s the organ- ized fraud by rings of crim- inals using sophisticated Download 3.03 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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