We learned some important lessons this week about the dangers inherent to losing control of your customer or client data, either through hacking, internal theft, or poorly designed controls over what your business associates...more
3/22/2018
/ Cambridge Analytica ,
Client Data ,
Consent ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Mining ,
Data Protection ,
Election Results ,
Hackers ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Social Media
Twenty-six years ago in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bellas Hess bright line rule that out-of-state sellers cannot be held liable for collecting and remitting sales tax to any state unless...more
At the 34th Annual National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud in Las Vegas yesterday afternoon, Mark Daly, DOJ Tax Division Senior Litigation Counsel announced a major new shift in how the Department of Justice plans to argue...more
12/8/2017
/ Anti-Money Laundering ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
FBAR ,
Foreign Bank Accounts ,
Offshore Banks ,
Offshore Funds ,
Penalties ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Tax Returns ,
Title 31 ,
Transaction Reporting
In Carpenter v. United States, federal investigators sought cellphone location data for a set of persons suspected in a series of robberies. The Fourth Amendment prevents the government from conducting unreasonable searches...more
11/30/2017
/ Carpenter v US ,
Cell Phones ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Cybersecurity ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Location Data ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
Riley v California ,
SCOTUS ,
Search & Seizure ,
Stored Communications Act ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
Warrantless Searches
Under the new Section 7345 of the Internal Revenue Code coming into effect in January 2018, Congress has given the IRS the power to “certify” the names of delinquent taxpayers to the State Department for purposes of denying...more
11/2/2017
/ Burden of Proof ,
Certifications ,
Debtors ,
Foreign Taxpayers ,
Free Speech ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
International Travel ,
IRS ,
Magna Carta ,
Passports ,
Tax Court ,
Travel Ban ,
US State Departments