About 500 families may have a little bit less to be thankful for this morning: Swiss tax authorities have announced that they have notified the
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So Tell Me, Taxpayer, Do You Feel Lucky?
It was a question posed to US taxpayers by the IRS in the wake of the UBS scandal: do you feel lucky? The US offered
Read MoreTax Havens Suddenly Not All The Rage
Suddenly, it’s not so fashionable to have your money in Swiss banks. That’s sooo February 2009. This season, all of the trendy tax evaders are
Read MoreUBS Client Prosecutions Continue
Jeffrey Chernick, a toy salesman out of New York, was sentenced on Friday to three months in prison for hiding millions of dollars from the
Read MoreFix The Tax Code Friday: Foreign Accounts
The IRS crackdown on foreign accounts has been generating a lot of discussion in the blogosphere. Some folks argue that it’s a waste of resources,
Read MoreIRS Crackdown On UBS Continues With Indictments
The IRS is making serious noise about its attempts to combat offshore tax evasion. What could be a better pulpit than its high profile UBS
Read MoreIRS Plays Chicken With Taxpayers
Remember that great scene in the movie Footloose when Kevin Bacon is challenged to a game of chicken on the tractor? It seems that the
Read MoreMore Tax Haiku
Maybe it’s summer. Maybe it’s my grief over the UBS saga finally ending. Or maybe I’ve just been inspired by 1LPoet to find my inner
Read MoreUBS Settles With IRS
Um, that’s all we know. Really. I’ve been sent a trillion links on this today and despite pages and pages of content, nobody has any
Read MoreNo UBS Settlement So Far
Despite widespread rumors that UBS might settle with the US government, there was no movement on the matter. The case, brought by the US government,
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