In the end, with or without a crackdown on tax cheats, the cost is likely to fall somewhere between those two options.

Making tax cheats feel economic pain is also central to the plan.

Connecticut has a vigorous program to find sales tax cheats.

Anyone buying or selling a home may be affected by the Government's new effort to catch tax cheats.

But beyond the shrinking size of the work force has been its attitude toward pursuing tax cheats.

But bigger companies are not likely to risk being publicly cited as tax cheats.

The division also set up a toll-free hot line last year to report tax cheats.

About eight of 10 known tax cheats are let go without having to even pay the taxes, interest or penalties.

There is a dispute about who are the biggest tax cheats.

After all, tax cheats don't care if taxes go up because they are not paying their share.