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On October 7, 2016, the IRS and the DOJ (US Department of Justice) announced yet another conviction related to an undisclosed Swiss Bank Account owned through a Hong Kong shell company. Facts of the Case: Hong Kong Shell Company Used to Hold Undisclosed Swiss Bank Account The facts of the case contain a fairly typical […]
On December 7, 2016, Mr. Eugene Sherayzen, the founder of Sherayzen Law Office and a US international tax lawyer, gave a lecture at the Minneapolis chapter of Alliance Française. The topic of the lecture was an introduction to reporting of foreign income and foreign assets for individual taxpayers in the United States. The lecture was […]
Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (also referred to as “FIRPTA”) is the most important tax law for foreign investors in US real estate. Not only does FIRPTA determine the tax treatment of the gains on the real estate owned by nonresident aliens, but it also establishes the famous FIRPTA tax withholding mechanism that […]
If you are a resident of Austin, Texas, and you have undisclosed foreign accounts, it is highly likely that you have searched for Streamlined Disclosure Attorney Austin. Let’s analyze this search term – Streamlined Disclosure Attorney Austin – to understand exactly what kind of an attorney fits this search. Streamlined Disclosure Attorney Austin Search Applies […]
Bitcoin Offshore Abusive Tax scheme is now at the center of the new war against offshore tax noncompliance. The IRS started this war on November 17, 2016, with the John Doe Summons petition against Coinbase, Inc., the largest US bitcoin exchanger. In this petition, the IRS Revenue Agent David Utzke details one variation of the […]