Articles of Interest to Tax Crimes Fans (8/10/16)

I offer these two articles of interest to Tax Crimes fans.  The authors are all prominent players in the tax and white collar crime practice, so I link their bios as well.  They are sorted by first author's last name:

• Peter D. Hardy, here, Scott D. Michel, here, and Fred Murray, here, Is the United States Still a Tax Haven? The Government Acts on Tax Compliance and Money Laundering Risks, J. Tax Prac. & Proc. 33  (June-July 2016), here.  The summary is:

As the world now knows well, the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was the subject of a stunning breach of approximately 11.5 million financial and legal documents in April 2016. These leaked documents, the so-called "Panama Papers," have been publicized through an international consortium of journalists and allegedly reveal a global system of undisclosed offshore accounts, money laundering and other illegal activity. The effect of the Panama Papers has been explosive; the documents allegedly implicate world leaders, financiers, celebrities and other prominent individuals from across the world in the use of shell companies to conceal assets from their respective home country governments. The Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has announced that it is launching an investigation into these matters, as have enforcement agencies in many other countries.

• Jeremy Temkin, here, Collecting Taxes From Convicted Defendants, 256 NYLJ No. 27 (8/9/16), here.  The summary is:

At the conclusion of a criminal tax case, a convicted defendant is rightfully most concerned with the prospect of incarceration. There are, however, other consequences of a conviction and, in federal criminal tax cases, the financial ramifications are complicated by the potential for a subsequent civil proceeding brought by the Internal Revenue Service seeking taxes, interest and penalties far beyond what was addressed in the criminal case. This article discusses cases that highlight these issues, and concludes that practitioners need to be cognizant of the financial consequences of tax convictions.