The case of the U.S. vs Brian Nelson Booker a Florida based CPA the first person criminally charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) with allegedly making false statements in connection with the IRS’s Streamlined Domestic Offshore Program (SDOP), reminds us that filing a Streamlined submission under the SDOP requires a taxpayer to be non-willful […]
A terrific read on what Streamlined is and when Streamlined can be used without going to the more over reaching OVDP Offshore Voluntary Compliance Program, including some facts that may not support non-willful behavior.g The Pitfalls of Streamlined Foreign Account Disclosures Tax professionals, and also the general public, well know by now that U.S. taxpayers […]
Recently, many tax return preparers have learned that a number of their clients failed to report their interest in a foreign bank account, corporation or trust to the IRS. Because the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires foreign financial institutions to report their U.S. depositors to the IRS, the IRS is more likely to […]
An Alternative to Streamlined It can take months to get a nonfiler back into compliance with the IRS. By Jim Buttonow, CPA/CITP November 7, 2016 – See more at: http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/newsletters/2016/nov/bring-nonfiler-bac-into-compliance.html The IRS estimates that more than 7 million individual taxpayers didn’t file a 2010 tax return. The IRS bases this estimate on information statements […]
Written by Phil Bradford Are you an American expat who owe money to the IRS? Or, are you thinking of escaping your US tax debt by moving abroad? If so, then beware! The IRS won’t leave you without grabbing its money. It’s because, the US has tax treaties with more than 42 countries, where the […]
