After news broke last fall that the Swiss Bank, UBS was under attack for hosting undeclared, offshore accounts and holding seminars educating Americans on “overseas tax reduction strategies”, the Internal Revenue Service has now devoted a specific department focusing on individuals worth $10 million or more in assets, Multinational and International corporations participating in transfer pricing among other avenues potentially evading millions of U.S. tax dollars every year.  Anyone that
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If you are hiding income in an offshore account, it’s not too late to come clean with the IRS.  Although the tax amnesty deadline for voluntary disclosure has expired (in November 2009), you can still get professional tax representation to help you possibly reduce severe tax penalties and work out a structured IRS payment plan.  At Tax Resolution Services, we recommend seeking tax help first before the IRS finds you.  If that
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This week the Swiss parliament accepted a treaty with the United States, agreeing the terms which would have UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, disclose the names of 4,450 American account holders suspected of tax evasion to the IRS. This decision comes after a three year battle between U.S. tax authorities, the IRS and the Swiss bank over the bank’s involvement in allowing American clients to cheat the tax system by hiding
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In the latest news about tax evasion charges for UBS account holders, five more has just been found guilty for hiding funds overseas.
According to Wall Street Journal, “A number of UBS clients have agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges for failing to report funds held overseas or by overseas entities.”
In many cases, people who know they are facing tax evasion charges will plead guilty for a lesser penalty than
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For those who thought the heat from the UBS-IRS deal has passed, it’s time to think again.
The United States and Switzerland recently announced a new protocol where it will allow the Swiss government to provide information to the IRS on U.S. account holders of Swiss bank UBS.
According to Journal of Accountancy, “The protocol has been approved by the Swiss Federal Council and was signed in Washington on Wednesday, but the
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Taxpayers with foreign funds may have felt the heat back last summer when UBS struck a deal with the US government to release some 4,500 names of American bank account holders to the IRS. That frenzy may seem far back in the past now but this wave of aggressive tax evasion crackdown is nowhere near over.
Recently, Wall Street Journal reported that UBS is increasing its lobbying efforts for the Swiss government
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The NYTimes reported a recent case where a wealthy investor in Virginia pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges involving his undisclosed foreign funds. One thing that distinguishes this investor from the many taxpayers who have been prosecuted by the IRS for hiding funds abroad was that this investor’s money was not hid in UBS.
Indeed, the IRS is expanding its reach to other banks beyond UBS that are helping wealthy Americans
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With the April 15th deadline fast approaching, taxpayers need to stay vigilant about what they report (and don’t report) on their tax returns in order to avoid being audited by the IRS or incurring heavy IRS penalties.
CNNMoney released an article recently that outlines several helpful tips for taxpayers to heed in order to prevent getting audited by the IRS. It’s important for taxpayers of all income brackets to realize that
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Taxpayers with foreign bank accounts must stay on top of the game when it comes to paying taxes and disclosing foreign funds.
If you have undisclosed foreign funds or if you have accumulated back taxes on your overseas money, now is the time to seek tax help from a tax attorney or Certified Tax Resolution Specialist to resolve your IRS problems before they become any worse.
Due to the severe nature of
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Many taxpayers facing the tough year of 2009 may find themselves unable to pay their full taxes in 2010 or unsure about how to resolve the back taxes that they already owe. This is why it’s a pleasure for me to sit down with people like Scott Mason of KROQ to share some free tax help advice to listeners.
Right now we are seeing some real desperate situations where many people
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Recently, more than 14,700 Americans with secret offshore accounts took the IRS up on their offer of tax amnesty for voluntary disclosure before the October 15th deadline, generating “billions of dollars” in new revenue for the IRS. Based on this success, the IRS has hired 800 personnel in the United States and bulked up their offices overseas to smoke out more tax revenue from offshore hiding places.
Taxpayers need to be
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The latest IRS step-up in tax collection crackdown has some 14,700 wealthy Americans shaking in their chairs. The IRS reports that it has been seeing an “unprecedented” number of Americans who have come forward before the October 15th amnesty deadline. Offshore account holders who voluntarily disclose their unpaid back taxes on foreign funds by this deadline are able to receive reduced IRS penalties.
For those who did not make the deadline
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We provide offshore tax evasion defense for clients who have been targeted by the IRS. And I’ve heard on many occasions that it’s difficult to find reliable offshore tax resolution information on the Internet. So we’ve added a new tax help resource devoted to IRS offshore tax settlements to to further help people with overseas accounts by educating them on their options for tax relief.
Each year, the government racks up
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This Thursday’s deadline for Amnesty has many wealthy Americans with foreign bank accounts nervous and scrambling to get tax help from their tax attorneys. Don’t miss your chance of significantly reducing your likelihood of facing criminal prosecution–if you have foreign bank accounts (either with UBS or some other foreign bank) with funds that you have not paid taxes on, get tax help now before it’s too late.
The issue started this
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In an effort to keep the doors open for foreign bank account holders wary of criminal prosecution, the IRS has extended the deadline for voluntary disclosure from September 23rd to October 15th, giving taxpayers an extra 2.5 weeks to come clean about their undeclared income.
If you have undeclared funds in foreign bank accounts, now is the time to act in order to reduce your chances of criminal prosecution and to
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