Posts Tagged ‘offshore tax settlement’

Tax Help For Offshore Account Holders as Swiss Government Seeks to Salvage UBS Agreement

Friday, January 29th, 2010

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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Offshore Banking & FBAR Defense Division Launches as IRS Cracks Down on Overseas Tax Evasion

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

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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IRS Offshore Tax Evasion Defense Can Benefit Taxpayers of All Income Brackets as Uncle Sam Slams Down on Foreign Bank Account Tax Cheats

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

Before the UBS deal of 2009 that sent overseas account holders scrambling to submit their voluntary disclosures before October 15th’s amnesty deadline, many people believed a number of IRS myths: that Swiss Bank Accounts are a “tax fortress” impenetrable by the IRS or that the IRS only cared about the “bigger fish.” However, as we have seen in the past couple of months, this is clearly not the case anymore.
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IRS Encourages Offshore Account Holders to Come Forward - Get Expert Tax Help BEFORE Talking to the IRS!

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

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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Democrats Offer Bill to Prevent International Tax Evasion–Taxpayers Can No Longer Use Foreign Bank Accounts to “Hide” Income

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Earlier this week, Democrats offered a bill that will strengthen the IRS’s ability to crack down on tax cheats who “hide” their full income by using foreign bank accounts.
Following the latest UBS deal that brought 7,500 Americans forward who had previously concealed their foreign bank accounts from the IRS, this new bill “would impose new reporting requirements on foreign financial institutions doing business in the United States, and on American
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