Many Americans (including US citizens and US green card holders) living abroad will get a small reprieve from U.S. Internal Revenue Service rules on reporting foreign assets, the agency announced on Tuesday. The IRS said
The Internal Revenue Service appears to have finally created a process to finally separate small non-resident (foreign resident) US taxpayers from larger non-resident US taxpayers at the front end, and not force everyone through the
In a Tax Notes Today report of statements made at the Eastern Pennsylvania Working Together Conference in Malvern, PA, Jason Kuratnick, IRS Associate Area Counsel (Philadelphia), Small Business / Self-Employed Division is reported to have
Depending on the circumstances, we sometimes recommend some taxpayers to opt out of the voluntary disclosure initiative and allow us to demonstrate the absence of willfulness and avoid the normal FBAR penalty regime. We have
Under IRS Form 1040, at the bottom of Schedule B, Part III, on Page 2, Question 7(a) states: “at any time during the previous year, did you have any interest in or signatory or other
Suppose you have a foreign bank account holding more than $10,000. You may have inherited it, used it to hide money during a dispute with your spouse or business partner, or just done it on
This year, there is at least one new tax form for US taxpayers to be aware of: Form 8938: Statement of Foreign Financial Accounts. Since there are a number of sometimes obscure U.S. tax forms
The IRS has finally attempted to demystify its new Form 8938. Below are some Form 8938 FAQs: Basic Questions and Answers on Form 8938 1. What are the specified foreign financial assets
The IRS and US Treasury have stepped up their efforts toward tracking down delinquent tax payers and enforcing payment of overdue taxes. One of these initiatives is the “Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act”. FATCA is
I have frequently seen the following scenarios in working with clients to determine whether a offshore voluntary disclosure program filing (OVDP) is appropriate and how they should report foreign account. First, a parent or grandparent
US authorities have offered eleven financial institutions a settlement agreement in which the US government’s investigations in those financial institutions — for aiding tax evasion — and potential prosecution would be dropped. The eleven financial
American Citizens Abroad (ACA) has written to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman of the IRS to express the organization’s profound concern that he has not answered the Directive issued by National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson. In
