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How Does the IRS Define Willfulness in Unreported or Under-reported Offshore Income

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How does the IRS define willfulness in unreported or under-reported offshore income?  What actions help determine whether a U.S. taxpayer's actions amount to "willful or non-willful" conduct?  Why should U.S. taxpayers be...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

IRS Updated Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures

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What do you need to know about the IRS updated Streamlined Filing Compliance Procedures or "Streamlined Procedures?" Are you concerned about unreported or under-reported offshore income or assets? Are there accounts you...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Estrategias Y Esquemas Tributarios Para Evitar Impuestos A La Vanguardia Del IRS

El 11/04/24, el IRS concluyó su Lista de la Docena Sucia de 2024 con una “advertencia a los contribuyentes sobre los promotores que venden estrategias fiscales falsas y esquemas extraterritoriales fraudulentos diseñados para...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Tax Strategies And Schemes To Avoid Taxes At IRS Forefront

On 4/11/24, the IRS wrapped up its 2024 Dirty Dozen List with a “warning to taxpayers regarding promoters selling bogus tax strategies and fraudulent offshore schemes designed to reduce or avoid taxes altogether”. Tax...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

The Risks of an IRS Quiet Disclosure

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What are the risks of an IRS quiet disclosure? Is there a formal IRS process known as a "quiet disclosure," and does the IRS honor this strategy for amended tax returns?...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup April 8 – April 12, 2024

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Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of April 8, 2024 – April 12, 2024. April 8, 2024: The IRS released Internal Revenue Bulletin 2024-15,...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

How Does the IRS Use AI to Identify Tax Cheats?

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Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) increase the likelihood of an IRS audit in your future? How does the IRS use AI to identify US taxpayers who attempt to hide assets, under-report income or otherwise cheat the IRS? In...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Are There Strategies to Avoid an IRS Audit?

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Are there strategies to avoid an IRS audit? What are some of the known risks for triggering an IRS audit? What should you do if you have are concerned about the information provided a previous tax return? Is there a way to...more

Lerch, Early & Brewer

Tenth Circuit Affirms Deficiencies, Penalties for Offshore Income

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Harrington v. Commissioner - In Harrington v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, George S. Harrington (Harrington) challenged tax deficiencies and fraud penalties assessed for tax years 2005 through 2010. Originally...more

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Supreme Court Hands Taxpayers a Victory in FBAR Penalty Case

Taxpayers recently won a significant victory at the Supreme Court in a penalty case involving a non-willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR”) under the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA”)....more

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Major Win For Taxpayers: SCOTUS Limits FBAR Penalties to Per Report Not Per Financial Account

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After years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court, in Bittner v. United States, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), determined that the penalty for a non-willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts...more

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Willful or Non-Willful? That Is the Question: IRS Rejects Non-Willful Certification

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In Flint v. United States, 2022 WL 3593826 (Fed. Cl. 2022), the court held that the executors of an estate could not recover a six-figure "Title 26 miscellaneous offshore penalty" (MOP) the decedent paid to the Internal...more

Gray Reed

Non-Willful FBAR Penalties Will be Much Higher in the Fifth Circuit

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On November 30, 2021, the Fifth Circuit parted ways with the taxpayer friendly decision of the Ninth Circuit that non-willful penalties are capped at $10,000 per FBAR filing instead of the $10,000 per unreported bank account...more

Freeman Law

Yet Another Streamlined Filing Turns into a Criminal Indictment, Implicating Former CPA and Businessman

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A recent IRS Criminal Investigation press release announced an indictment against a businessman charged with defrauding the United States by not disclosing offshore assets, failing to report income to the IRS, and submitting...more

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Do FBAR Penalties Survive Death? A Texas Court Says “Yes”

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A federal district court in Texas recently took up an interesting FBAR issue: whether civil FBAR penalties survive death?  That is, if a taxpayer/account holder dies after the IRS assesses an FBAR penalty against them, do the...more

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Federal Court Imposes Willful FBAR Penalties on Long-Time CPA

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In a recent decision, a federal district court found that a long-time CPA/tax-return preparer recklessly failed to file FBARs to disclose several foreign financial accounts. As avid readers of our Insights are aware, many...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

El IRS Está En Una Misión De Reducir La Brecha Fiscal

La diferencia entre el monto del impuesto adeudado por los Contribuyentes para un año determinado y el monto que realmente se paga oportunamente para ese mismo año se conoce como “Brecha Fiscal Bruta” (“Tax Gap”). El IRS...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Closing A Foreign Bank Account Will Not Solve A Taxpayer’s Disclosure Problem

IRS is interested in U.S. Taxpayer financial accounts everywhere in the world.  If the IRS learns that a Taxpayer has undisclosed reportable accounts or income before a US Taxpayer reports them, the Taxpayer can face serious...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Eleven of the IRS's Enforcement Priorities During the 2021 Tax Season

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It is tax season once again. While the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has extended this year’s filing deadline to May 17, 2021 for individuals, businesses must still file by April 15, and all U.S. taxpayers must ensure that...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

“Reasonable Cause” When Dealing with the IRS

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On November 5, 2020, the IRS removed the Delinquent Information Submission Procedure Program from its Offshore Compliance Options Menu.  Before the removal of this program, a US Taxpayer could file a “delinquent”...more

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Is your Financial Institution Maintaining Continuous Compliance with FATCA?

Participation in FATCA is not an option, it is here to stay, and it is part of a global initiative. FATCA is complicated, and for the bankers, it has implied learning new terminology and understanding thousands of pages of a...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

FBAR Penalties: Is it per Account or per Violation?

U.S. Taxpayers (includes a citizen, permanent resident, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust and estate) are required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) if they have...more

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Don’t Forget to File Your Foreign Bank Account Return

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If you have a foreign bank account (or signatory authority on a foreign bank account), you are required to file a Form 114 (commonly called an FBAR) if at any point during the calendar year the combined balance in all of your...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

IRS: Las Cuentas Financieras “Offshore” NO pasarán Inadvertidas

El 15 de marzo del 2019, el IRS informó que la ocultación de dinero o activos en cuentas extraterritoriales (“offshore”) no declaradas permanece en la lista de las estafas tributarias conocidas come la Docena Sucia o "Dirty...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

IRS: Offshore Financial Accounts will NOT go Unnoticed

On March 15, 2019, IRS reported that hiding money or assets in unreported offshore accounts remains on the Internal Revenue Service’s “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams for 2019....more

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