02/19/2015
Three Swiss bankers accused in 2012 of helping Americans hide more than $1.2 billion from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service face new charges of obstructing the agency from collecting taxes on undeclared accounts.
02/13/2015
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The company’s aggressive online marketing has attracted enough customers that the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. prosecutors noticed.
02/13/2015
Doug was co-chair of our Estate Planning & Taxation committee.
02/13/2015
The whole system is a disaster
02/10/2015
Clinton foundation received up to $81m from clients of controversial HSBC bank
The charitable foundation run by Hillary Clinton and her family has received as much as $81m from wealthy international donors
02/05/2015
Authorities Investigate Whether Swiss Bank’s Clients Used ‘Bearer Securities’ to Hide Cash
02/05/2015
It also calls for a 19% minimum tax on future foreign earnings
02/04/2015
China’s tax officials plan to step up efforts to collect taxes from multinational corporation in the latest of a series of moves in the last year, mostly against Western companies.
02/04/2015
Reworked tax rules on how hedge funds can set up reinsurance shop in in offshore domiciles and continue to receive a favorable tax treatment are expected to be issued in the next 90 days, according to Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen.
02/04/2015
The aim is to stop what some see as a way for hedge funds to avoid tax on income by using offshore reinsurance operations and for their investors to avoid U.S. tax laws too.
01/30/2015
Justice Department officials have defended deferred prosecution agreements
01/30/2015
IRS Targets Banks In FATCA Crackdown
The US Internal Revenue Service has posted tax investigators to foreign embassies to lead a Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act crackdown on suspected tax evasion.
01/28/2015
Prager Metis CPAs Completes Merger with Polakoff and Michaelson
The accounting and business consulting firm of Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, has completed a merger with Polakoff & Michaelson
01/22/2015
Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday that Republican lawmakers will be motivated to work with Democrats
01/21/2015
Democratic lawmakers Tuesday pushed legislation to stop U.S. companies from reincorporating overseas to reduce their tax bills, saying a wave of so-called inversions last year has nearly doubled the revenue the federal government will lose from those move
01/19/2015
President Expected to Outline Tax Measures in State of the Union Address
01/19/2015
Large firms need relief, but smaller enterprises vital to the economy are often hit even harder.
01/14/2015
A pair of Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate have re-introduced legislation aimed at preventing the abuse of offshore tax havens by multinational companies.
01/09/2015
A total of 15,039 Swiss residents have filed voluntary disclosures since the government introduced an amnesty
01/07/2015
Barbados appears to be moving into full financial information-sharing mode as the world’s most powerful countries put their foot down on tax evasion.