IRS Announces New Rules for FBAR Penalties

- By : Parag Patel

…examination; FBAR issue workpapers; the FBAR 30-Day Letter (Letter 3709 for pre-assessment; Letter 3708 for post-assessment); the Taxpayer’s protest; the representatives FBAR/Title 31 Power of Attorney Form 2848, if applicable;…

IRS Releases New IRS 2022 FBAR Fact Sheet

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FBAR Submission Procedure (or DFSP), which our office has successfully utilized hundreds of times to cure delinquent FBARs and immunize clients from penalties. Nonethless, the new IRS 2022 FBAR Fact…

New FinCEN Form 114 (FBAR) Filing Rules Announced

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…required to establish the profile of each FBAR filer. They were also used as the means to electronically sign the submitted FBARs. This required an FBAR filer to provide the…

Correcting Common FBAR Errors

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…Amended FBAR According to the FBAR instructions, a person who previously filed an FBAR but mistakenly provided incomplete or inaccurate information on the form is required to file an amended…

2016 US Dept of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division: FBAR penalty collection cases

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…unusual FBAR penalty collection is required. Unlike a tax or penalty assessed in the Tax Code, which is subject to broad administrative collection remedies of liens and levies, the FBAR

High Penalties for failure to file an FBAR: Not Really Enforced (yet)?

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…If the aggregate value of the foreign financial accounts exceeded $10,000 at any time during the year, a ‘Foreign Bank Account Report’ (FBAR) must be filed. The FBAR is due…

New Court Ruling: FBAR penalties applied per form and not per account

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The FBAR rules require the filing of a FinCEN Report 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) to report for accounts of U.S. persons aggregating $10,000 or more….

New Court Case Limits the Reasonable cause exception to FBAR penalties

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…program or file the missing FBAR forms. The IRS issued non-willful FBAR penalties against both Larry and Linda for four years, a total of $80,000.00.   Is a CPA’s Advice…

New FBAR Deadline applies to 2016 Tax Year Onwards

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…take effect until the FBAR for the 2016 year is due in 2017. Hence, the 2015 FBAR is still due on June 30, 2016. However, the 2016 FBAR and subsequent…

New Favorable Court Decision: One penalty (not multiple) applies for late FBAR filing

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…interest in, or signature authority over, foreign financial accounts with an aggregate balance of $10,000 or higher must file an FBAR. The FBAR has no income tax implications, it is…

New IRS FBAR Practice Unit

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…for Late-Filed FBARs? Under the BSA, the IRS can assess civil penalties if a USP has an FBAR reporting obligation and fails to timely file a complete and accurate FBAR. …

New FBAR Court Case Makes it Easier for Taxpayers to be Deemed Willful

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…inflation) or 50% of the balance in the unreported financial account. A recent court case impacts the FBAR Burden of Proof. What is the FBAR Burden of Proof? When we…

OVDI: Requesting issuance of a FBAR warning letter instead of penalties

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…In doing so we have been advocating for the IRS Agent to issue the FBAR warning letter instead of penalties. IRM 4.26.16.4 (07-01-2008) FBAR Penalties The IRS has been delegated…

Foreign pension accounts reporting on the FBAR

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…reported on FBAR? Some practitioners take the position that these plans do not need to be reported on the FBAR.  We disagree. A conservative approach would be to report it…

Opting-out of the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative: FBAR Penalty Mitigation Guidelines

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…those who do not know about the Normal FBAR Penalty Mitigation, you should see http://www.irs.gov/irm/part4/irm_04-026-016.html#d0e1317. The Normal FBAR Penalty Mitigation are also provided below. Normal FBAR Penalty Mitigation Guidelines for…

New IRS Guidelines for Willful FBAR violations

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Last week, the Internal Revenue Service released interim guidance (SBSE-04-0515-0025) on foreign bank account report (FBAR) penalties to improve the administration of the FBAR compliance program. The guidance contains amendments…

Beware: IRS Reminds Taxpayers of FBAR Deadline

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FBAR requirement. The FBAR filing requirement is not part of filing a tax return. The FBAR Form 114 is filed separately and directly with FinCEN. FBAR filings have surged in…

New FBAR Deadlines and Penalty Relief available

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…was due to FinCEN by June 30, 2015. In addition, the June 30 deadline for FBARs for such years cannot normally be extended. New FBAR reporting guidelines and New due…

Caution: Increased FBAR Enforcement

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…of the evidence that Toth’s failure to file FBAR was willful.  In United States v. DeMauro (D. N.H. Dkt. 17-cv-640-JL 8/28/20 here), the Court approved of the government’s assessed FBAR willful penalty. …

Federal District Court Holds that FBAR Penalties in Excess of $100,000 is Unlawful

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…penalties. The IRS assessed penalties for willful failure to timely file FBARs from 2007 to 2010. The individual had four separate FBAR violations in 2007, and the associated penalties totaled…

New FBAR FIling Deadline Law Signed

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…15th, if this is the first time the FBAR was due. High penalties apply for failure to file FBARs. However, the IRS already has discretion to waive FBAR filing penalties….

New Much-Needed Guidance for Non-Willful FBAR violations

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Last week, the Internal Revenue Service released interim guidance (SBSE-04-0515-0025) on foreign bank account report (FBAR) (also known as FinCen 114) penalties to improve the administration of the FBAR compliance…

Helpful Non-willful FBAR penalty case decided by court

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…at some non-willful FBAR penalty litigation. The US district court has essentially dismissed a taxpayer’s challenges to his penalty for failing to file FBARs (Report of Foreign Bank and Financial…

Willful FBAR Penalties

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…the IRS each year by filing a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). Taxpayers must file the FBAR annually and the last day to timely file is at…

FBAR Reforms Recommended

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…filing of FBAR extensions through their products; FinCEN’s final regulations include a provision to grant an automatic extension until June 15 to FBAR filers located overseas or who maintain their…

All the Many FBAR Late Filing Procedures

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…become noncompliant and delinquent. However there are a number of different delinquent FBAR late-filing procedures U.S. taxpayers can go through to become compliant. Delinquent FBAR Submission Procedures or DFSP A…

US Court finds non-willful FBAR penalty not limited to $10,000 per year

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…the penalty should not exceed $10,000 per FBAR, irrespective of the number of bank accounts required to have been listed on the FBAR. The court viewed Section 5321 as “somewhat…

Foreign bank account reports (FBARs) and the 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (2011 OVDI)

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Foreign bank account reports (FBARs) for 2010 are due on June 30, 2011 (and no extension is available). Recent guidance provides insight into who is required to file an FBAR

How to Defend Against FBAR Penalties

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…be income tax return audits seeking the unreported foreign income. These audits will likely identify the non-filing of Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, TD F 90.22-1 (FBAR) forms….

Some FBAR Deadlines Extended

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Last week the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) again extended the deadline for certain financial professionals to file foreign bank accounting reporting forms known as FBARs. In FinCEN…