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Estate and Tax Planning for US Expatriates

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What are the most important elements of estate and tax planning for US expatriates?  Are you planning to move out of the United States?  Are you a US taxpayer who lives and works outside of the country?  What are some of the...more

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FBAR Penalty Defenses and Techniques: The Wrong “Willful” Penalty Computation

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On September 8, 2023, the IRS issued a News Release suggesting that FBAR compliance investigations and audits would heat up in the near future.  For those unfamiliar with FBARs, federal law requires United States persons to...more

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Collins Reminds that Corrective Actions Alone do not Always Negate Willful FBAR Penalties

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As a general matter, the FBAR is not a difficult tax form to prepare, at least for most taxpayers and their tax professionals. At its very basics, it merely asks for identifying information regarding the taxpayer and certain...more

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Supreme Court Will Hear Non-Willful FBAR Penalty Dispute

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On June 21, 2022, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear a dispute involving split decisions among the circuit courts on non-willful penalties. The Fifth Circuit parted ways with the taxpayer friendly decision of the...more

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IRS Goes After Holocaust Survivor for Willful FBAR Penalty

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FBAR Penalties - On March 8, 2022, the Southern District of New York issued its Opinion in the case of United States v. Schik, No. 20-cv-0221 (MKV), 2022 U.S. Dist. Lexis 41148 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 8, 2022). In that case, 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

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Timely FBAR Filing as Important as Ever Following Circuit Court Decisions

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Last week the Ninth Circuit issued a win for taxpayers in US v. Boyd, limiting penalties for non-willful violations of the requirement to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). ...more

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IRS Officials Discuss Promotional Airdrops, Pre-2018 Crypto-for-Crypto Exchanges, and Other Issues Not Addressed in Recent Tax...

In October of 2019, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued the first new guidance on the taxation of cryptocurrency transactions in over five years (the “Guidance”). The Guidance comprising a revenue ruling (Rev. Rul....more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Are you a Taxpayer identified by IRS for not Reporting Offshore Financial Assets?

Taxpayers with unreported foreign financial assets and income run the risk of having the Government determine if their conduct was willful or non-willful. The definition of “Willful" or "non-willful” in Taxpayer’s conduct...more

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FBAR Penalty Amounts are in the “Best Judgement” of an IRS Examiner

The Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) is not a tax form. Its filing is not required by the Internal Revenue Code. It is required by Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Title 31 is the Bank Secrecy...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

El FBAR y La Declaración de Impuestos Se Sincronizan

La presentación de la declaración de impuestos (el 15 de Abril para los individuos) y el formulario de FinCEN -Informe 114, conocido como FBAR (el 30 de Junio para todos los contribuyentes) no estaban alineadas, y no existía...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

The FBAR and Tax Return are now in Sync!

The filing of the tax return (April 15 for individuals) and Report FinCEN Form 114, known as FBAR (June 30 for all taxpayers) were not aligned, and that there wasn’t an extension available for the FBAR. This disconnect is...more

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A Welcome Change: Congress Finally Conforms FBAR and Tax Return Filing Deadlines

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Last week Congress passed, and the President signed, a bill entitled “The Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015.” While this legislation was primarily directed at extending federal...more

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2014 Foreign Financial Account Reporting Requirements

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U.S. citizens or residents who owned, directly or indirectly through an entity, beneficially or who had power of attorney/signature authority over one or more foreign financial accounts with an aggregate value exceeding...more

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