06/21/2015
UAE signs intergovernmental agreement with the U.S. on the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
FATCA was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2010 to target non-compliance by U.S. taxpayers using foreign accounts.
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06/19/2015
Proposed U.S. Model Treaty Provisions May Dramatically Alter International Tax Landscape
The U.S. Model Income Tax Treaty generally represents the United States’ opening position in treaty negotiations
06/12/2015
The IRS Turns Up The Heat On Hedge Fund-Backed Reinsurance
What is a hedge fund investor to do?
06/11/2015
IRS Deadlines Loom for Taxpayers With Offshore Accounts
IRS reminds taxpayers of important June deadlines for FATCA and FBAR filings
06/03/2015
Hedge Fund Giant Tells Hillary Clinton to Cut the 'Crap'
Billionaire hedge fund founder Leon Cooperman takes issue with the former secretary of state's portrayal of his profession.
06/02/2015
U.S. Department of Justice States its Tax Enforcement Priorities
In her recent testimony before Congress Caroline Ciraolo Acting Assistant Attorney General stated the enforcement priorities for the Tax Division. Among the four areas of focus is Offshore Tax Evasion.
06/02/2015
El Salvador joins international efforts to fight offshore tax evasion
El Salvador became a member of the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in 2011.
06/02/2015
deVere: Presidential candidates owe it to America to explain their stance on controversial FATCA
Presidential candidates must come clean on America’s highly controversial global tax law - and more must urgently be done to repeal it, not least because it is “a blue print for worse to come”, warns the boss of one of the world’s
05/27/2015
More Swiss banks to settle with U.S. Department of Justice in near future - official
The settlement came under a voluntary Justice Department programme launched in 2013 that enables Swiss banks to avoid prosecution by disclosing cross-border activities that helped U.S. account holders conceal assets and income.
05/26/2015
A Global Economy Needs an Offshore Industry
Tax avoidance may once have been its main purpose.
05/26/2015
Switzerland Publishes Tax Evader List
Some observers are calling this the real and final end of Swiss bank privacy tradition, which mostly dates to the 1930s.
05/19/2015
Bill Gates: Taking on Ayn Rand – claims tax doesn’t kill innovation
The world’s richest man, Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates, last night stuck a stick into the eye of capitalist icon Ayn Rand.
05/15/2015
More FATCA Letters, As Swiss And Other Foreign Banks Crack Down
There will be more additions as more and more Swiss banks conclude their discussions as part of the U.S. settlement.
05/13/2015
US House of Representatives votes to repeal estate tax
On 16 April the House of Representatives voted to repeal estate tax, currently 40% with a $5.5 million exemption for individuals and an $11 million exemption for couples.
05/13/2015
An American Tax Nightmare
Pressure is growing to halt its pernicious impact.
05/11/2015
Puerto Rico – The Truth About This Tax Haven
Nobody likes to pay taxes, even if we grudgingly accept their role in making civilization possible.
05/08/2015
IRS expands use of legal tools against tax evaders
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is planning to broaden the use of subpoenas of documents in cases where the name of a taxpayer under investigation is not known.
05/08/2015
Americans abroad renouncing US citizenship hits record ‐ again
More Americans renounced their US citizenship in the first quarter of 2015 than any previous quarter in history, according to the IRS.
05/07/2015
Falciani: all banks help evade taxes
“The higher compensation people get for helping justice, the greater the pressure cheaters will have. It’s important to know people can gain a lot more by helping instead of cheating.”
05/06/2015
Overseas Americans ramp up bid for tax relief
Organizations representing millions of Americans who work abroad are storming Capitol Hill in a push for tweaks to tax and banking policy