Tax Law Blog

How troublesome is it if you fail to file your annual tax return, or your quarterly business taxes? This is not a trick question. The answer is, “it depends.”

In May, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report that confirms the Internal Revenue Service is not pursing high income taxpayers that fail to file tax returns.

If you fail to fully report your income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), you could be heading for tax troubles ahead.

Some people file false income tax returns, and others embellish or otherwise engage in tax fraud on their annual returns. Then there are the taxpayers that just do not file at all—the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls them “nonfilers.”

If you have a foreign bank account, hopefully you have heard about FATCA. FATCA enables the long arm of the US Treasury to require foreign entities to report offshore tax monies and assets held by US taxpayers to that agency.

Relieving some stress on a country devastated by viral illness, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pushed back the traditional filing dates for income tax returns this year.

If you are a “United States person” and hold a foreign bank account with enough value during the year, you probably owe the Internal Revenue Service a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR).

A successful restaurant and an opulent lifestyle led to a guilty plea in federal court in January as restaurateur Adel Kellel admitted he had “cooked his books” for years.

A Brooklyn pharmacist was arrested and arraigned recently for his involvement in a drug diversion network involving illicit sale of the opioid oxycodone.

“Citizenship for investment,” does the term sound familiar?  The EU is cracking down on tax havens that put a price tag on citizenship.