Tax Law Blog

Cleveland readers familiar with the archaic procedure rules of Congress and the misdirection and sleight of hand of skilled lawmakers know that an innocuous-sounding bill can have buried deep within it important changes in law or funding. Take, for...

Regular readers of our Cleveland tax blog will undoubtedly recall recent references to the FBAR (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts). It's essentially a report to the Internal Revenue Service on amounts of $10,000 or more in any overseas...

Our regular readers know that in our previous blog post, we wrote about looming June deadlines for expatriates. Monday, June 15 is tax-filing day and Tuesday, June 30, is FBAR day. Unfortunately, the latter is no more of a holiday than the former....

On a summer day three years ago, a former banker walked out of a federal prison after spending two and a half years locked up for tax conspiracy. A little over a month later, the U.S. government cut him a check for $104 million (minus taxes). He was...

Around the world, U.S. citizenship is an enviable status. It's somewhat surprising; therefore, that the U.S. Treasury Department is expecting a record number of U.S. citizens to renounce their citizenship this year. In fact, since September, more...