The ABA recently held a conference titled National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud and Institute on Tax Controversy. \u00a0I attended the conference where many tax attorneys and government officials discussed issues of interest.<\/p>\n
Also discussed was the effect of streamlined program to channel most taxpayers into streamlined rather than OVDP. \u00a0Government official John McDougal said that the average $10,000 payment in streamlined suggests that the program is working and that most practitioners are appropriately channeling the small non-willful clients. \u00a0Statistics were announced that show 18,000 streamlined submissions in the last year compared with 1,800 new OVDP submissions.<\/p>\n
Tax professionals analyzed the streamlined submission\u2019s certification process and the potential problems, particularly criminal from improper certifications of non-willfulness. A senior Dept of Justice lawyer, Mark Daly, said that he has been looking at a lot of certifications recently and some have “patently ludicrous” narratives presented to support the non-willful certification. \u00a0He said that they are checking against information from other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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