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Thursday, March 28, 2013

More thoughts on Lawyer's Behavior -- Ethics and Criminality (3/28/13)

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I have recently posted two blogs on Ethics -- (1) Random thoughts on Ethics, Tax Opinions and A Tax Lawyer’s Life at a Big Law Firm (3/27/1...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Fourth Circuit Finds Prosecutor Abuse for Comment on Credibility and Questioning Character Witness but Affirms Anyway (3/27/13)

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In United States v. Woods , 710 F.3d 195 (4th Cir. 2013), here , Woods "was convicted of numerous charges arising from a tax fraud sche...

Random thoughts on Ethics, Tax Opinions and A Tax Lawyer’s Life at a Big Law Firm (3/27/13)

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An anonymous reader of this blog offered comments on a recent blog entry, Ethicist Question About Tax Professionals Exploiting Loopholes (3...
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First Circuit Decides NonTax Criminal Case With Issues Related to Issues in Tax Crimes Cases (3/27/13)

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A reader, Eliot Silverman, here , brought to my attention a recent First Circuit opinion in a nontax criminal prosecution.  See United State...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

IRS Identifies Its Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2013 (3/26/13)

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The IRS has released its annual Dirty Dozen of Tax Scams.  See IR-2013-33, here. [I will link here when I get the link.]  Some involve scams...
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A Tax Defier Is Convicted (3/26/13)

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While I have not represented so-called tax protestors or tax defiers -- persons wrapping their tax cheating in a cloak of feigned patriotic ...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Bullshit Tax Shelters with Basis Overstatements Draw the 40% Penalty (3/25/13)

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The Supreme Court has decided to accept cert on the split in the circuits on the issue of whether the 40% valuation / basis overstatement ap...

U.S. Focuses on Liechtenstein (3/25/13)

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Bloomberg reports that Liechtenstein, sometimes acting independently and sometimes as a  partner with Swiss enablers, is now receiving speci...
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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Ethicist Question About Tax Professionals Exploiting Loopholes (3/24/13)

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In this blog, I usually discuss tax crimes and matters related to tax crimes.  At least for tax professionals, there are parallel ethical is...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

IRS has New Forms for Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Letter and Attachment (3/23/13)

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These new forms apparently will replace the dog-ugly word versions.  As of this posting, the old ones -- in MS Wod format -- are still the f...
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USA SDNY Announces Sentencing of Daugerdas Related Defendant (3/23/13)

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USA SDNY announced, here , the sentencing of David Parse, a former broker at Deutsche Bank, caught up in the Daugerdas juggernaut.  Key exce...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Acquittal in Pflueger Involving Offshore Accounts (3/20/13)

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I have previously blogged on the Government's offshore account prosecutions related to the Pflueger family in Hawaii.  See the blogs lis...
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Monday, March 18, 2013

HSBC India Depositor Sentenced (3/18/13)

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A reader commented that Josephine Bhasin was sentenced on 3/8/11.  The docket entries from Pacer indicate that the only available document r...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013

Principal Comments on Unclaimed Deductions and Losses in Sentencing Tax Loss Determinations (3/16/13)

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The Sentencing Commission has received comments and testimony from principal constituents as to the issue of whether unclaimed deductions an...

Article Targeted to Jewish Readers As A Result of Israeli Bank Developments (3/16/13)

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Readers already know that, now that the Government is doing, in some respects, a mop-up operation for Swiss Banks (plenty to come, but the s...
Thursday, March 14, 2013

U.S. Taxpayer Pleads to FBAR and Tax Perjury Violation (3/14/13)

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In a Bloomberg article that I just posted, there is a discussion of an FBAR plea agreement which I had not been aware of before.  David Vore...

U.S. Using a Client List of Indicted Swiss Banker/Enabler (3/14/13)

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There is an interesting story that the IRS obtained a list of a Swiss Banker's clients and is using it as a road map to identify clients...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Former IRS Large Case Auditor Pleads to Criminal Conflict of Interest & Wrongful Disclosure (3/13/13)

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The USAO SDNY announced yesterday that Dennis Lerner, a former IRS employee, pled to two 5 year felony counts -- (i) criminal conflict of in...