Doctor Sentenced for Failing to File FBAR Reports

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Michael Reiss, New Jersey doctor, professor and medical researcher, was sentenced on January 11, 2012 for failing to report his offshore (UBS) bank accounts. According to the IRS, Reiss was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center for failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) with the IRS. Reiss pleaded guilty in August 2011 and agreed to pay back taxes of at least $400,000

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Doctor Sentenced for Failing to File FBAR Reports

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Michael Reiss, New Jersey doctor, professor and medical researcher, was sentenced on January 11, 2012 for failing to report his offshore (UBS) bank accounts. According to the IRS, Reiss was sentenced to eight months in a community confinement center for failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) with the IRS. Reiss pleaded guilty in August 2011 and agreed to pay back taxes of at least $400,000

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Offshore Tax Evaders Get Preferred IRS Help

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

An article in Bloomberg entitled IRS Called Easy on Criminal Tax Evaders in Watchdog’s Critique outlines Nina Olson of the National Taxpayer Advocate’s concerns that intentional tax evaders get more IRS help than those who weren’t intending to hide money from the U.S.government. Olson warns that future IRS collection efforts could be jeopardized due to confusion over the treatment of accidental tax evaders. The IRS sees

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Tax Advocate Warns Taxpayers Rights at Risk

Friday, January 20th, 2012

While cutting government spending is often seen as a good thing, in the case of the IRS, it may be having the opposite effect. Forbes featured an article IRS Advocate: New Taxpayer Rights Crisis Is Brewing highlighting the release of a recent annual report to Congress by National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson. Olson, known for being one of Washington’s most outspoken officials, states her concerns for current IRS policies

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More Wealthy Americans Need Tax Help

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

The IRS just released a study showing a rise of under-reporting by American taxpayers to the tune of $450 billion dollars in 2006; that’s up $105 billion from the last IRS study that was conducted in 2001.
A Forbes article called New IRS Tax Gap Report: Cheating Still Rampant shows taxpayers have an 83.1% compliance rate. That means that the 17% of American taxpayers who are under-reporting their taxes are contributing

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New IRS Program for Offshore Tax Help

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Major news agencies are reporting the recent IRS announcement that it was “reopening” the offshore voluntary disclosure program to encourage taxpayers to disclose their offshore accounts and becoming current with their IRS tax debt. An article written in Forbes, IRS OffersTaxpayers One More Chance, shined some light on the most likely motives for this latest IRS amnesty: money.
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Tax Help In the New Tax Year-Thank You IRS

Friday, January 6th, 2012

With holiday festivities in the past and a new tax season on the horizon, it is important to take a moment before all the preparation to give your appreciation to the IRS. Yes, that’s right; give them thanks for the service they provide. This praise probably sounds strange to the 1-6 Americans with IRS tax problems who don’t feel very thankful facing the most powerful collection agency on the planet. 

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Offshore Account Holders Beware of IRS Summons

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

As we always say at Tax Resolution Services “you can run but you can’t hide from the IRS” which was reinforced in a recent Forbes article called IRS Summons? Meet John Doe.  The article shed some light on the “other” way the IRS can find taxpayers suspected of tax debt through what is called the John Doe Summons.  The John Doe Summons works to gather information like: pursuing investors in tax

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Tax Debt Detection-The IRS and Analytics

Friday, December 30th, 2011

For those who owe the IRS back taxes, you will want to take note before the new tax year. There is a new tool in the IRS tax collection arsenal poised to better recover unpaid taxes, detect tax fraud schemes, and reduce the number of fraudulent refunds the agency pays out than everbefore.  An Information Week article “IRS Uses Analytics to Help Collect Delinquent Taxes”, announced news of the

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Offshore Accounts and Swiss Banks– No Longer a Secret

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

This Tuesday, a deadline passed in which 11 Swiss banks were given an IRS ultimatum to hand over account information and pay billions in fines to avoid US tax evasion prosecution. However, what the banks have not divulged are the claims that they would also have to provide all correspondence of their offshore clients over the last 11 years. An online article from “US tax “ultimatum” has Swiss banks sweating”

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Owe Back Taxes? Offer in Compromise or IRS Payment Plan Can Help

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

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New Year’s Tax Resolution: Back Tax Tips

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

Every year, millions of taxpayers fail to file their federal taxes by the April 18 deadline. This inaction inevitably leads to paying more in the form of unnecessary fines and penalties on top of the taxes owed. Even those folks, who filed an extension, are still responsible for filing the taxes owed plus penalties for the delay. Depending on the tax amount due, continuing to neglect to file yearly tax

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IRS Tries to Ease Nerves of Americans Living Abroad

Friday, December 16th, 2011

The IRS has created its own storm of controversy by going after US Citizens worldwide to collect their taxes. But from the nearly one million American citizens who live and work in Canada, the IRS gained a stern message: clarify the regulations for tax compliance. Initially, manylaw-abiding citizens living abroad who failed to file US tax returns or declare financial holdings were simply unaware that they needed to do

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IRS Compliance Could Cost Big Banks Big Money

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

As a certified tax resolution specialist, I have said it many times before; it never pays to hide from the IRS. Nowhere is that more apparent than with the government crackdown on off-shore tax evaders. The creation in 2010 of Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) set into motion serious U.S. efforts to combat tax evasion by U.S. taxpayers with investments in offshore accounts. Not only do FATCA regulations have

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Glenn Beck Endorses Tax Resolution Services on GBTV

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

On his new channel, GBTV, multi-media personality Glenn Beck gives a rousing “thumbs up” to Tax Resolution Services as the best firm in the business to settle back tax issues. Beck, no fan of the IRS and never shy to share his opinion, concludes (in the video clip below) that we all must take care of our tax responsibilities, no matter what. Glenn Beck’s main points include: Being honorable and paying your

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Paying Off Tax Debt: There Are Options Available

Friday, October 21st, 2011

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How to Prevent Tax Liens-Act Now

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

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Distressed Homeowners Can Resolve Their IRS Back Taxes

Monday, October 10th, 2011

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Tax Shelters Spring a Leak-Offshore Tax Evaders Take Note

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

In less than a month after the voluntary offshore bank declaration amnesty deadline expired, the results are showing that tax collection efforts from once elusive off-shore account holders appears to be working. A recent Reuters News Article – America’s Rich Losing Tussle with Taxman dated September 30, revealed that since 2008, the IRS has been successful at cracking down on off-shore tax shelters and going after Swiss banks (initially) and

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Tax Resolution Under Scrutiny-Find Out Who Should Worry

Friday, September 30th, 2011

I contributed to a recent article written by Tax Analysts Document Service regarding the unscrupulous practices of some tax negotiation-resolution firms (the article was called Tax Debt Representation Industry Continues to Operate in the Shadows).  I talked about the reality thatsome tax resolution firms  have negatively affected not only vulnerable taxpayers but also damaged the reputation of the viable tax debt representation industry and set the Federal Trade Commission

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