What Is An FBAR? Taxes From A to Z®
Learn what an FBAR is, who must file one, what the threshold is, and which foreign assets count.
Learn what an FBAR is, who must file one, what the threshold is, and which foreign assets count.
You may think you know what a taxpayer with foreign assets looks like. It’s easy to paint a picture of the super-rich jetting off to the Caymans, but that’s more Hollywood-driven than real life. Taxpayers with control over foreign assets come in all shapes and sizes. It’s the executive who works in the U.S. on…
Last week, Italian police stopped rapper Snoop Dogg and found $422,000 (€385,071.64) in his luggage (Louis Vuitton, of course) just as he was about to board a plane. Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, had not declared the cash and that’s against the rules. In the European Union, the maximum amount of cash that…