“Will I get caught?” is one of the most common questions asked by potential tax cheats. The temptation to cheat the IRS is overwhelming for thousands of Americans. While no one knows whether and when they will be caught, the IRS has become much better at finding those who evade taxes. One of the best […]
Thinning the Herd: IRS Plans 2,500 Preparer Inspections
[Updated April 2020] The IRS has identified 10,000 tax return preparers who they say make too many errors. Errors that ultimately cost their clients money. The IRS plans to visit approximately 2,500 of those preparers over the next several months. Many people use professional tax preparers for their returns. Wealthier individuals often use CPAs while […]
Tax Evasion and Shell Companies – IRS Whistleblower Reward Post
[Updated through December 2020] The world is becoming more transparent by the day. As more banks and governments exchange financial information, thousands of innocent folks are getting caught in government drag nets designed to identify those with unreported offshore accounts. Many, however, are not innocent. Most folks with offshore accounts are dual nationals, foreign born […]
Alliance & Nikolai Battoo – “Figment of Criminal Imagination”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged yet another player in the massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Nikolai Battoo. Marketed as PIWM, Maven Assurance or Maven Life, the Ponzi scheme is estimated to have raked in over $150 million dollars. Already the principals, Nikolai Battoo and his chief marketer Tracy Sunderlage, have been charged […]
Captives and Life Insurance – A Deadly Combination
We have posted several articles on captive insurance fraud and each one has prompted a certain amount of controversy. That’s good because it get people thinking. Unfortunately, as fraud recovery lawyers, we see cases where investors lost battles with the IRS over captive insurance programs. Even worse, we often see captive insurance programs that are […]
Cayman Banks To Disclose Info – IRS Whistleblower Post
[Post Updated 2020] U.S. taxpayers are required to report offshore financial holdings. This includes bank accounts, certificates of deposit, offshore brokerage accounts and even some life insurance products. Reporting is done annually on a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, more commonly known as an FBAR form. (Depending on how those assets are held, […]
IRS FBAR Whistleblower Post – The Waiting Is Over
[Post updated 2020] We have been warning people for years that the day of reckoning was coming. Sure, there were some false starts and last minute political moves, but the waiting is over. In 2013, Switzerland and the United States reached an agreement where the Swiss will begin releasing the names of thousands of U.S. […]
Internal Audit Post: Oneida Tribe Pays Property Taxes – Twice
The Oneida Tribe of Indians is a sovereign tribal government occupying 102 square miles of land near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Like most federally recognized tribes, The Oneidas are exempt from local property taxes. A recent internal audit stemming from the tribe’s housing authority revealed the tribal government had improperly paid county property taxes for years. […]
Bad Tax Policy – California's Retroactive Tax Levy
We represent many businesses – everything from local “mom and pops” to a Fortune 150 company. What is the single biggest problem facing such a diverse group of business taxpayers? Bad tax policy; especially the lack of predictability and consistency. If you ask the general public what’s wrong with the tax system you are likely […]
FBAR Post – IRS Crackdown on Foreign Retirement Plans
Bloomberg reports the IRS is setting its sights on unreported foreign retirement plans. Most of the world is finally catching on that the IRS is serious about unreported offshore bank accounts. Many other countries are racing towards greater exchange of financial information and transparency too. Unfortunately, compliance remains very low when dealing with foreign retirement […]
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