The following may delay and/or reduce a refund: A tax return that has errors A taxpayer and/or spouse, if filing a joint return, who has any outstanding unpaid assessments,
Overall, for all areas of the law, federal civil trials have declined 60 percent since the mid-1980s. In 2002, less than 2 percent of those cases ended in a trial â down from 12 percent in 1962 and 20 percent in the 1920s. Less than 5 percent of criminal cases go to trial; most result in plea bargains.
This means that it costs an average of $143,493 per person who takes a plea bargain, and an average of $423,646 per person whose case went to trial. From the chart on page 15, the data shows there was an average of roughly 750 white collar crime convictions per month, equaling about 9,000 for the year 2011.