Tax Avoidance vs. Tax Fraud/Evasion: Keeping Yourself and Your Clients on the Right Side of the Line

Elliott E. Lieb, CFE

Lieb Consulting

• Owner and operator of Lieb Consulting.
• Conducts financial fraud investigations, criminal tax defense, money laundering defense, Bank Secrecy Act defense, and other white-collar crime defense in collaboration with various accredited criminal attorneys, including providing expert witness testimony in money laundering and financial crimes.
• Contract instructor for the Multi-Jurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT) program, teaching financial investigations and money laundering to law enforcement agencies and military personnel worldwide.
• Former IRS Criminal Investigator (Special Agent) — served as case agent, supervisor, Assistant Division Chief, Division Chief, and in other management roles across various field offices throughout the United States.
• Adjunct professor of Forensic Accounting at the University of Cincinnati Graduate School of Accounting; recipient of the Dean’s List of Teaching Excellence.
• Guest speaker for numerous local bar associations and universities.
• Holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• Can be contacted at [email protected] or 859-331-5432

Robert C. Webb

Frost Brown Todd LLP

Robert C. Webb, Esq.

• Partner at Frost Brown Todd LLP in Louisville, KY.
• Seasoned attorney specializing in IRS matters.
• Has represented hundreds of taxpayers in civil audits and in the U.S. Tax Court involving multimillion-dollar tax disputes.
• Has led the defense of federal and state criminal offenses at the investigatory, grand jury, and trial levels in areas such as criminal tax fraud, mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen goods, criminal and civil RICO, health care fraud, criminal antitrust, money laundering, gambling, and environmental matters.
• Successfully represented a former Kentucky government official in a major tax fraud and mail fraud trial, as well as executives in a health care fraud and grand jury investigation.
• Conducted internal investigations for public companies and has extensive experience counseling clients on voluntary disclosure issues.
• Worked at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., in the Civil Tax Litigation Division.
• Frequently conducts presentations on tax compliance and legal strategies and previously taught federal taxation of entities at Bellarmine College.
• Authored numerous articles on criminal tax and white-collar matters, including the first Criminal Tax Practice Monograph for the University of Kentucky College of Law.