Posts Tagged tax evasion
Update on HSBC Tax Evasion Post – France Provided 24,000 Names To IRS
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on May 19, 2013
Just 10 days ago we wrote about Herve Falciani, a French and Italian citizen wanted by Switzerland for allegedly stealing customer account information. Switzerland wants him to stand trial for theft. The Spanish government, however, says the information possessed by Falciani documents widespread money laundering and tax evasion by HSBC clients. Spain’s National Court ultimately [...]
UPDATE: IRS Promises To Obtain Warrants Before Reading Emails
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on May 10, 2013
by Brian Mahany 4 weeks ago we wrote a post about an internal IRS search warrant manual that said agents did not need to obtain a search warrant in order to read a taxpayer’s email. This was especially troubling since a federal court of appeals ruled in 2010 that emails shared the same expectation of [...]
IRS Extends Willful Blindness To Civil Tax Disputes
Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on April 13, 2013
by Brian Mahany Willful Blindness has long been a tool of federal prosecutors in a wide variety of criminal tax and drug cases. The doctrine holds that one can’t avoid criminal responsibility by simply ignoring the obvious. For example, drug couriers have unsuccessfully attempted argue that they couldn’t be found guilty of transporting drugs since [...]
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