What are some possible defenses for tax-related federal crimes?
Answer: The most common one would be you’re unaware or it had been no intent, failure to intentionally do anything wrong. In an effort to file your taxes, you would have mistakenly put a number that wasn’t intentionally misleading or intentionally fraudulent, but you just didn’t know. Or you were relying on someone else and therefore there wouldn’t be any potential intent to fraudulently evade or obtain some type of tax benefit or evade a tax.
