Tax Law Blog

Are you considering placing an investment in an offshore tax haven? While you can protect your wealth, there is a lot of bad press around the practice—what do you need to know?

Five years ago, an investigative expose into the opaque world of offshore tax deals shook global halls of governance and woke up the world to the concept of dirty money. What has happened since?

Two recent court rulings drive home the need to pay careful attention to FBAR filings—and the penalties that accrue if they are ignored.

Tax fraud is easy to commit and less easy to remedy once a criminal tax investigation has been initiated. Are you concerned about attracting the interest of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)?

In the waning days of the Trump administration, a federal prosecutor laid charges against an MIT professor as the parting salvo in the China Initiative, a program targeting the secret drain of proprietary secrets from the US to China.

Ready or not, a new tax season is upon us.

At some point in your life, it is possible you will have a disagreement with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The more complex your financial profile, the greater the likelihood that you and the IRS may not see eye-to-eye.

While it seems like 2020 has been one long disaster, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stepped up to offer some filing relief for those who are required to file a 2019 Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) who have been hit...

A nanoscientist with a yen for the good life is facing a world of trouble for not disclosing his professional ties with China.

If you are tagged by the Internal Revenue Service for failure to file a tax return, or your annual FBAR, you have stepped into something that is both a noun and a verb—a tax controversy.