Showing posts with label offshore banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label offshore banking. Show all posts
Thursday, July 08, 2010

EU-US Agree to Share Citizens Bank Data

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Just a few weeks after a deal was finalized with the Swiss to provide information about clients from UBS, President Obama is taking the ne...
Monday, June 21, 2010

UBS Customers: You May Want To Call The IRS Right Now

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Customers of UBS that have not come clean about their association with the troubled financial giant should speak up before it’s too late. ...
Monday, January 11, 2010

Crying Foul, Ex-UBS Banker Starts Prison Term

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From the Wall Street Journal : Former UBS AG private banker Bradley Birkenfeld, the key informant in the landmark U.S. case against the ...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Ex-UBS Banker Seeks Billions for Blowing Whistle

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Last Friday Lynnley Browning of NYTimes.com posted an article on Bradley C. Birkenfeld, and his chances of a billion dollar payout from ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Over 14,700 Americans Admit Foreign Bank Accounts to IRS

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From ABCNews.com: Under an IRS voluntary disclosure program that allows U.S. taxpayers to come clean about secret foreign bank accounts ...
Monday, November 02, 2009

USA Tops International Tax Haven List, Thanks To Delaware

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Although the Federal government is going to great lengths to take action against taxpayers using Swiss bank accounts to avoid paying taxes...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

1st UBS Client Charged By US Gets Probation In Tax Case

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The results are in for the first U.S citizen to be tried in a UBS offshore banking case. Steven Rubinstein – an accountant from Florida – ...
Monday, October 19, 2009

UBS Registered Mail Warns U.S. Clients

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From Reuters.com : Swiss bank UBS AG warned U.S. customers by registered mail their account details may be given to U.S. tax authorities, ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

IRS Extends Amnesty Program for Tax Cheats

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A few weeks ago, I posted a blog entry about the IRS amnesty program and the deadline for offshore tax evaders to turn themselves in. Howe...
Tuesday, September 01, 2009

IRS Corporate Audit Division Will Examine UBS Tax Evasion Cases

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When the average taxpayer gets audited by the IRS, they usually get contacted by a regular IRS revenue office. However, this is not the ca...
Monday, August 03, 2009

Settlement Near in UBS Tax Evasion Case

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According to the Associated Press the U.S. and Swiss government are close to reaching a deal over recent allegations that American taxpaye...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Lawyer Could Face Jail for Voir Dire Question

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From ABA Journal.com : A federal magistrate has found patent lawyer John van Loben Sels in contempt of court and threatened him with a ...
Monday, July 13, 2009

UBS in Talks to Settle Case on 52,000 Accounts

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After months of negotiation it looks like UBS, the largest Swiss bank, has finally agreed with the Federal government to give up the names...