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Freeman Law

Eleventh Circuit Holds Willful FBAR Penalties Unconstitutional

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In United States v. Schwarzbaum, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that certain penalties for failure to file FBARs violated the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment. The district court in this case had agreed...more

Miller Canfield

The FBAR penalty [is] [is not] a fine. Choose one.

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Conflicting Decisions: In August, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held in United States v. Schwarzbaum that a monetary civil penalty imposed for willfully failing to file a foreign bank account report...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Unconstitutionally Excessive FBAR Penalties? It Depends

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You may recall that earlier this year the IRS launched an initiative to pursue 125,000 “high-income, high-wealth” taxpayers who have not filed taxes since 2017. These were cases where the IRS received third party information...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

FBAR: The Eleventh Circuit Holds That Willful FBAR Penalties are Subject to the Eighth Amendment Creating Circuit Split

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For years, FBAR litigants have made the commonsense argument that large willful FBAR penalties, which can exceed the value of the unreported foreign accounts themselves, violate the excessive fines clause of the Eighth...more

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Will the Zwerner FBAR Fine Pass Constitutional Muster?

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Last week, a federal jury in Miami found that Carl Zwerner had willfully failed to disclose his foreign bank account to the Treasury Department for calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2006. Zwerner now potentially owes the United...more

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