Tax Law Blog

Foreign bank accounts, offshore accounts and shell companies have long been part of legitimate asset protection and tax planning strategies. In recent years, however, evolving global transparency initiatives have reshaped what those arrangements...

The National Taxpayer Advocate, Erin M. Collins, released the Fiscal Year 2026 Objectives Report to Congress on June 25, 2025. The report reviews the 2025 filing season and flags challenges the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and taxpayers will face...

Withholding and remitting employment taxes is a basic part of doing business for most U.S companies. When a business ceases to account for wage withholding with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it is often only a matter of time before the agency...

A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) underscores the impact of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) on effective tax rates for high-asset individuals, with some provisions reportedly extended earlier this year.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Security Summit occurred again this year, providing updates, tips, and regulatory reminders to tax professionals and other attendees.

Black, grey, non-cooperative? What is the difference in how an offshore tax jurisdiction is identified in the international tax community?

In an effort to increase the resilience of banking giant UBS, the Swiss finance minister laid out stringent new safeguards that may limit the global reach of the company.

The longtime effort to develop a global minimum tax rate hit a big snag when U.S. legislators recently proposed a “revenge tax” on investors from countries that apply such a tax to U.S. companies.

Following an IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) case, a Seattle business owner facing allegations of filing false tax returns and tax evasion decided to go to trial — and lost.

Think of an IRS tax transcript as your tax return’s “cheat sheet.” It’s not the full return, but a summary that lenders, auditors, or even investigators may look at when making decisions about you. Knowing what’s in it—and how to use it—can make...