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Sunday, April 3, 2011
On January 26, 2011, the IRS "moved East" in its attack on foreign banks and their U.S. customers with undisclosed offshore accounts. The Department of Justice indicted Vaibhave Dahake, an Indian-American businessman in New Jersey, for conspiring with several bankers at an "International Bank" to maintain undisclosed accounts with the bank's offshore...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Beginning in the late 1990s, after a period in which it had focused on being more "customer oriented" while audit rates dropped radically, IRS woke up to the fact that major legal and accounting firms were marketing various tax savings strategies to taxpayers and earning substantial fees for their services. It also realized that substantial tax revenues...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Editor:Larry Horn and Rich Sapinski, you have extensive experience both on the prosecution and defense sides of the criminal tax spectrum. Would you share some of your backgrounds with our readers?
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Monday, June 1, 2009
The recent, public hearings conducted by Senator Levin's Sub-Committee on offshore tax havens and their bank secrecy laws and the well-publicized parallel IRS summons enforcement efforts to compel Swiss banking giant UBS to provide the names and account records of the 53,000 U.S. taxpayers for whom UBS has admitted to maintaining undisclosed foreign bank...