Federal Tax Crimes

Jack Townsend offers this blog on Federal Tax Crimes principally for tax professionals and tax students. It is not directed to lay readers -- such as persons who are potentially subject to U.S. civil and criminal tax or related consequences. LAY READERS SHOULD READ THE PAGE IN THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN TITLE "INTENDED AUDIENCE FOR BLOG; CAUTIONARY NOTE TO LAY READERS." Thank you.

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Another Set Back for the Remaining Daugerdas Defendants - Economic Substance is Sufficiently Malleable to Establish a Line a Citizen Could Know (12/29/10)

False Statements (18 USC 1001) and Knowledge of Criminality (12/28/10)

Rumors that Offshore Bank Inquiry Expands to Other Swiss Banks and even to Wall Street

Swiss Enabler for Offshore Accounts Pleads Guilty (12/23/10)

Another Chapter Closes in the Tax Shelter Wars - Deutsche Bank Admits Crimes and Takes $553,633,153 Hit (11/22/10)

Another Swiss Bank Enabler is Charged with Tax / Klein Conspiracy

Sentencing Case on Emphasis on Restitution Rather than Incarceration in Financial Crimes Cases (11/10/10)

IRS Considering Another Round of Voluntary Disclosure for Offshore Accounts

Another UBS Related Defendant is Charged for Offshore Accounts (12/9/10)

Offshore Charges / Convictions Spreadsheet

Note to Readers - Back in Focus on this Blog

Another Foreign Bank -- in Israel -- Gets In Line

Government Pursues FBAR Penalty in Civil Case (10/31/10)

Ninth Circuit Applies Perlman Rule for Collateral Appeal of Order Rejecting Attorney-Client Privilege for Former Attorneys of NonIndicted Party (10/31/10)

Other UBS Account Holders are Charged

Developments on the UBS / Swiss Front

Another Tax Shelter Lawyer Bites the Dust

Can Signatories Filing FBARs During the Administratively Extended FBAR Filing Period Be Prosecuted for Failure to File? (10/16/10)