On April 2, 2009 the U.S. Treasury rolled out a Voluntary Disclosure program (expiring on September 22, 2009). The goal of this program is to bring into the fold undisclosed foreign bank accounts and with them, a lot of tax revenue. The voluntary disclosure program is confiscatory and will ...
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The deadline to apply to the IRS Voluntary Disclosure Program now over; however U.S. taxpayers still can file a voluntary disclosure under the IRS normal procedures. In 2009, the IRS and U.S. Department of Justice began its highly publicized investigation into Swiss bank UBS AG and ...
Written by admin on May 14th, 2011
Over the last year, the United States government has taken a great interest in undisclosed foreign bank accounts. Individual taxpayers who file U.S tax returns, and who have any offshore or foreign accounts must ...
Written by admin on April 6th, 2011
Doing business outside of the U.S.? Have an Offshore bank account or Brokerage Account? Own more than 10% of a foreign country legal entity? (and some rules apply to even lower levels of ownership). ...
