If you have a foreign bank account or other foreign financial asset, you may have a reporting obligation. Failure to report when required may result in significant penalties. The draconian penalties may be as much as 50% of the value of the assets at the time that the report was due. Do you have...
If you find yourself in litigation with the IRS, or in the middle of an administrative dispute that seems to be going nowhere, it’s time to consider a taxpayer’s best friend: the qualified offer. The qualified offer provisions allow taxpayers to recover fees and costs when the IRS rejects a settlement offer, and the taxpayers win a determination that requires a lesser amount than the offer.
Our tax system is based on voluntary reporting, and the Tax Code is full of different penalty provisions to encourage accurate voluntary reporting by penalizing those that do not. Even if all you did was fail to timely file your return and timely pay the amount shown on your return, you could be facing penalties of as much as 45% of the tax that you owe. But don’t despair; there are several ways to alleviate penalties. This article will focus on the three most common penalties: failure to file, failure to pay, and accuracy-related penalties.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is the first significant tax reform effort by Congress in more than 30 years, and it repeals the deduction for alimony and separate maintenance payments starting in 2019. Learn about the new changes and account during 2018.
The Department of Justice recently announced that it will begin arguing that offshore tax defendants should be sentenced under different guidelines that are based on the balances of offshore accounts rather than the tax loss from failing to report income from those accounts.
The IRS has a new Chief in charge of its Criminal Investigations division, and that means a renewed focus on traditional tax crimes (overstating deductions, underreporting income), and a new data-drive approach that will mean more tax crime investigations in Phoenix, and the surrounding cities.
This article will help you understand when the federal tax lien arises, what effect the filing of a Notice of Federal Tax Lien has, and how you can get rid of the Notice of Federal Tax Lien.
If you owe more than $50,000 in tax liabilities, the IRS now has the power to certify you to the State Department for passport revocation, and it is starting soon! This article addresses this new power of the IRS, the criteria to be certified, the right to judicial review of the IRS certification, and how you can avoid being certified, and thus, prevent the State Department from revoking your passport.
The IRS sent you a letter titled Final Notice of Intent to Levy and Notice of Your Right to a Hearing (LT11 or Letter 1058). What should you do now? This article will help you understand the importance of this notice, assess whether the IRS followed the proper procedures, and explain what you can do.
If you are involved in a tax controversy with the IRS, you should expect that that the IRS will want your electronically stored information (ESI) and it will summons it. This article explains what ESI is, why it matters, what powers the IRS has to get it from you, and what you should do about it.
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