Posts Tagged IRS attorney
Musings On IRS Scandal
by Brian Mahany The recent scandal involving the IRS and politically targeted audits has been well covered by mainstream media. I wasn’t even going to write about but for 3 emails from past and present clients. The details of the present scandal are fairly easy to summarize: 1) The IRS targeted conservative and “Tea Party” [...]
Captive Insurance Scams
Posted by admin in Fraud Recovery, Tax on October 11, 2012
by Brian Mahany It didn’t take long. On July 18th we wrote about the new IRS audit push on captive insurance companies. Unless very carefully crafted, the IRS considers most to be abusive tax shelters. This means big penalties if you misuse one to avoid taxes. Unfortunately, the captive insurance market has attracted its fair [...]
FATCA, Foreign Reporting and W8 Forms – PART I
by Brian Mahany While most of our blog posts are written to be entertaining, its tough to find any humor in FATCA. If you don’t already know what an IRS Form W8 is then there is no need to read any further. (FATCA stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, a W8-BEN is a [...]
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