Tax Law Blog

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.

One form of tax relief could lead to another form of tax enforcement. If you have recently received a letter from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), it would pay not to ignore it.

Maintaining some of your wealth through the use of an offshore tax haven can be a good strategy for growing and shielding your money. Americans living abroad routinely use foreign financial institutions for their banking and savings needs. Part of ...

Most of us would not intentionally commit tax fraud. Being convicted of filing fraudulent tax returns can put a crimp in your professional life, not to mention the possibility of going to prison. Yet, some people commit tax crime without even...

The circumstances around the arrest of a San Jose man tells a story of several common tax crimes rolled into one complicated narrative.

In the second largest penalty obtained by the Department of Justice, Israel’s sprawling Bank Hapoalim admitted to a systemic program whereby its officials and branches laundered money and actively helped US taxpayers set up offshore tax accounts to...

A false income tax return may mean different things to different people. How, you ask? There are different types of actions or omissions that broadly constitute tax fraud.

A new British levy is expected to raise £100m to fund anti-money laundering efforts in the United Kingdom.