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Offshore Funds Tax Penalties

Lerch, Early & Brewer

Tenth Circuit Affirms Deficiencies, Penalties for Offshore Income

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Harrington v. Commissioner - In Harrington v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, George S. Harrington (Harrington) challenged tax deficiencies and fraud penalties assessed for tax years 2005 through 2010. Originally...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Supreme Court Hands Taxpayers a Victory in FBAR Penalty Case

Taxpayers recently won a significant victory at the Supreme Court in a penalty case involving a non-willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (“FBAR”) under the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA”)....more

Polsinelli

Major Win For Taxpayers: SCOTUS Limits FBAR Penalties to Per Report Not Per Financial Account

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After years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court, in Bittner v. United States, 598 U.S. ____ (2023), determined that the penalty for a non-willful failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Willful or Non-Willful? That Is the Question: IRS Rejects Non-Willful Certification

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In Flint v. United States, 2022 WL 3593826 (Fed. Cl. 2022), the court held that the executors of an estate could not recover a six-figure "Title 26 miscellaneous offshore penalty" (MOP) the decedent paid to the Internal...more

Gray Reed

Non-Willful FBAR Penalties Will be Much Higher in the Fifth Circuit

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On November 30, 2021, the Fifth Circuit parted ways with the taxpayer friendly decision of the Ninth Circuit that non-willful penalties are capped at $10,000 per FBAR filing instead of the $10,000 per unreported bank account...more

Freeman Law

FBAR Penalties: Another Court Holds that FBAR Penalties Can Exceed the Regulatory Ceiling

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The Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (i.e., the “FBAR”) was for many years confined to the lonely backwaters of Title 31 of the United States Code—the intriguingly-named Bank Secrecy Act. For years, compliance...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

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

FBAR Penalties: Is it per Account or per Violation?

U.S. Taxpayers (includes a citizen, permanent resident, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust and estate) are required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) if they have...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Tax Scams put Taxpayers at Risk

The IRS produces a yearly list of Tax Scams known as the Dirty Dozen that Taxpayers may encounter.    IRS reiterates that Tax Scams put Taxpayers at Risk when it releases its list of Dirty Dozen Tax Scams.  These aggressive...more

Butler Snow LLP

U.S. Internal Revenue Service Updates Voluntary Disclosure Procedures

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The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has finally updated its voluntary disclosure procedures following the closure of the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (the “OVDP”) earlier this year. The updated procedures will apply to...more

Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP

What to Do (and Not Do) to Resolve Your Offshore Tax Issues

In recent months, the Internal Revenue Service (“the Service”) began the process of issuing follow-up letters to taxpayers who either requested preclearance to participate in the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (“OVDP”)...more

Burr & Forman

IRS Announces End to Foreign Bank Account Disclosure Program: What Can You Do Now If You Still Have Unreported Foreign Bank...

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The IRS recently announced it will be shutting down its successful Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) for unreported foreign bank accounts and income. The program will end September 28, 2018. Under the OVDP, first...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

IRS Announces Changes to the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program

As you may have read, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently announced changes to its offshore voluntary disclosure programs and announced new options for taxpayers to come into compliance with their U.S. tax...more

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