The U.S. Treasury Department announced this week a proposal for new regulations intended to make it easier for overseas banks to comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA requirements.
An article in Reuters U.S. enlists 5 EU nations in offshore tax crackdown explains these proposals as the U.S. Government not only addressing concerns of foreign financial institutions regarding the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA, but also the
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Question:
I have several years of unfiled tax returns and owe around $25 thousand dollars in back taxes to the IRS for my small business. I know I need to take care of this huge burden but I’m overwhelmed, what help is out there get me out of this mess?
Answer:
First, addressing your IRS tax issues right now is the first step towards finding the tax relief you need. There is a
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An article in Bloomberg entitled IRS Called Easy on Criminal Tax Evaders in Watchdog’s Critique outlines Nina Olson of the National Taxpayer Advocate’s concerns that intentional tax evaders get more IRS help than those who weren’t intending to hide money from the U.S. government. Olson warns that future IRS collection efforts could be jeopardized due to confusion over the treatment of accidental tax evaders.

The IRS sees
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As we always say at Tax Resolution Services “you can run but you can’t hide from the IRS” which was reinforced in a recent Forbes article called IRS Summons? Meet John Doe.  The article shed some light on the “other” way the IRS can find taxpayers suspected of tax debt through what is called the John Doe Summons.  The John Doe Summons works to gather information like:

pursuing investors in tax
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For those who owe the IRS back taxes, you will want to take note before the new tax year. There is a new tool in the IRS tax collection arsenal poised to better recover unpaid taxes, detect tax fraud schemes, and reduce the number of fraudulent refunds the agency pays out than ever before.  An Information Week article “IRS Uses Analytics to Help Collect Delinquent Taxes”, announced news of the
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In a story straight out of a Hollywood movie, the estate of the late heiress, Huguette Clark has been shrouded in controversy since her death this May at age 104. Not only has her estate been slapped with $50 million in IRS penalties, her trusted financial advisors are facing allegations of tax fraud by the office of the public administrator of New York County. Born in 1906, the youngest child
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German A. Posada, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Posada admitted to filing a false individual income tax return for 2004 that underreported the income from his business as a real estate agent in the Las Vegas area.
From 2003 to 2005, Posada earned commission income from International Realty and another agency.  He
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A Tallahassee, Fla., man whose business involved selling CDs and DVDs at a flea market was convicted of four counts of tax evasion from his failure to file personal tax returns for the years 2005 to 2008.
From 2005 to 2008, Lennie Fulwood Jr., 42, made cash deposits totaling more than $1.7 million, which he placed into multiple bank accounts established in Tallahassee. The majority of the cash deposits were made
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The FBAR… anyone familiar with that term?  I would assume that most people aren’t, so let me explain. The FBAR is an acronym for the Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts and is actually a form known as the TD F 90-22.1, a pdf directly downloadable from the IRS for your filing convenience.  Kelly Phillips Erb, aka: Tax Girl,  wrote an article for Forbes online explaining the important
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Today’s Tax Resolution Tip:
Unfiled tax returns are very dangerous. If you have any delinquent tax returns it is essential that you file your latest tax return, including any prior tax returns you missed out on. Not filing your returns can cause significant problems as time goes on.
File any and all delinquent tax returns as soon as possible. State what you owe. This will save you money and help you avoid
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Failure to file tax returns can be construed as a criminal act.  In the case presented below, this Pennsylvania willfully failed to file any tax returns and, no doubt, will be punished like the true criminal that he is.
David M. Mengden, of Chadds Ford, Penn., has been charged in a nine-count indictment with tax evasion, obstruction of justice, failing to file tax returns and bank fraud.
The indictment alleges that Mengden engaged
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I was recently quoted in the Fiscal Times article “Tax Bill Blues: What to do if You Can’t Pay the IRS.” Writer Emma Johnson explores how American consumers can feel paralyzed with anxiety when they are looking at a big tax bill but just don’t have the cast to pay it. She also emphasizes the importance of taking action – because ignoring the problem is only going to make  the Internal
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I recently came across an interesting article on CNN with some surprising stats. In Tax cheats: Single, young and male, an annual survey conducted by DDB Worldwide Communications Group found that the typical American tax cheat is male, single and under the age of 45. According to the survey:

15% of Americans surveyed fessed up to fudging their tax returns
64% of those people were men, according to the survey of consumer attitudes and behavior.
35%
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Failure to file tax returns can be a criminal offense.  What most people don’t know is that you have a right to file your original tax return, no matter how late it is.  Delinquent tax filing gives the consumer a chance to state what they owe to the IRS.  Another fact that most people don’t know is that if you don’t file your tax return, the IRS will often file
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According to Reuters news service, the Obama Administration’s proposed 2012 budget includes a $1.13 billion increase in funding for the IRS.  About $460 million of the increase, which brings the total IRS budget to a whopping $13.3 billion, is slated for tax enforcement programs. The increase allows the IRS to hire 5,100 new employees, most of whom will go after delinquent taxpayers both large and small.
I’ve come across too many
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