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The tax advantages of those who seek financial advice: James Saft

With tax season at hand, investors should consider one of the ways in which their financial advisors can earn their keep: tax advice.

Taxpayers Dash To Tell About Offshore Accounts

FATCA came reached the statute books in 2010, but did not come into force until July 2014.

Swiss Bank/U.S. Near Tax Settlement.

The U.S. has been aggressively tracking down Swiss accounts since 2008, hoping thereby to severely reduce this method of tax evasion.

Canada Joins 21st Century Fight against Tax Dodgers

Federal budget earmarks $90 million annually to tackle evasion. It's about time.

Investors Sweet on Tax Havens

These funds took in $301 billion in net new money last year, bringing their total assets to $4.8 trillion, a 6.5 percent growth rate over 2014.

Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act

The Canada Revenue Agency quietly turned 155,000 banking records over to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service during last fall’s election, without waiting for an assessment from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner or the outcome of a court challenge to

First Conviction of Non-Swiss Financial Institution For Tax Evasion

2 Cayman Islands firms plead guilty to U.S. tax evasion

U.S. clients hid $130 million in offshore accounts

FATCA exceptions agreed by Swiss and US authorities

Accounts held by the lawyers or notaries of clients in Switzerland are now exempt from the United States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act following the signing of an agreement by the countries’ authorities in February.

Thailand, US sign agreement to share tax information

The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, enacted in 2010

Singapore Banking Secrecy Makes Ripe Target for IRS

The IRS asked a federal judge in Miami to force UBS

Top Puerto Rico luxury hotel targeted in tax evasion case

The island's Justice Department said Wilhelm Sack and Harold Davies Mayne of the Horned Dorset Primavera are accused of withholding more than $600,000 in room occupancy tax over the past six years.

Feds Want UBS Forced To Give Up Taxpayer's Bank Records

The federal government asked a Florida federal court Tuesday to require Swiss bank UBS to cooperate with an IRS investigation into an American taxpayer allegedly holding funds at the bank overseas

PKF O’Connor Davies Grows International Footprint by Expanding O’Connor Davies Administration Practice with Swiss Based VBK+CO

Together we are in a unique position to serve the complex accounting, administration, tax and compliance needs

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