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“Check The Box” Won’t Work For Foreign Financial Institutions – FATCA Compliance

Posted by admin in Tax on December 1, 2012

by Brian Mahany I vividly remember a job application for a summer job at an oil refinery many years ago. One of the questions was, “Are you addicted to or take illegal narcotics?” You don’t have to be the brightest to work in a refinery but they didn’t clearly were concerned about stoners working around [...]

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Feds Proposed New Felony Tax Crime Has Implications For Those Overseas

Posted by admin in Tax, White Collar Criminal on November 25, 2012

by Brian Mahany Tax evasion is a felony. Prosecutors must prove that the person accused possessed a willful intent to evade taxes and committed some affirmative or overt act of evasion. Mere failure to pay taxes or file returns are misdemeanors punishable by no more than a year in prison. The difference is the required [...]

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FATCA Timelines

Posted by admin in Tax on November 18, 2012

by Brian Mahany With the some 50 countries ready to sign information exchange agreements with the United States and recent changes to some key FATCA dates, we thought it would be helpful to list critical dates. FATCA, for those who still haven’t heard of the new law, stands for the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. [...]

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FATCA Impacts on U.S. Real Estate Projects

Posted by admin in Tax on November 11, 2012

[Ed. Note: Most of our FATCA articles are aimed at individuals. We do represent businesses, however, and those articles tend to be more technical. This is one such article.] FATCA Impacts On U.S. Real Estate Projects by Brian Mahany As most readers already know, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act is directed at U.S. taxpayers [...]

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Unreported Offshore Account? You Are Going to Get Caught!

Posted by admin in Tax on November 10, 2012

by Brian Mahany I would be a rich man if I had a nickel for every time a potential client with unreported foreign bank accounts asked me if I thought they would be caught. Back in 2008, my answer might have been different. Not today. While not everyone may get caught – a few people [...]

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Congressman Rips FATCA

Posted by admin in Tax on November 3, 2012

by Brian Mahany The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) doesn’t have many friends these days. Tens of thousands of taxpayers – mostly foreign born Americans, dual nationals, green card holders and Americans living abroad – were caught completely unaware of the foreign reporting requirements. Despite a PR campaign by the IRS, many still are [...]

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Barbados Close To FATCA Disclosure Agreement With US

Posted by admin in Tax on October 26, 2012

by Brian Mahany Never a week goes by without more countries signing tax exchange agreements. Recently, many of those countries have been signing agreements with the United States Treasury. In 2014, foreign banks are required to disclose the identities of Americans with foreign accounts. While some countries have publicly rallied against the new regulations, they [...]

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FATCA, Foreign Reporting and W8 Forms – PART I

Posted by admin in Tax on October 3, 2012

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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Posts Tagged U.S. tax attorney

“Check The Box” Won’t Work For Foreign Financial Institutions – FATCA Compliance

Feds Proposed New Felony Tax Crime Has Implications For Those Overseas

FATCA Timelines

FATCA Impacts on U.S. Real Estate Projects

Unreported Offshore Account? You Are Going to Get Caught!

Congressman Rips FATCA

Barbados Close To FATCA Disclosure Agreement With US

FATCA, Foreign Reporting and W8 Forms – PART I

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