Former Mizrahi-Banker Charged With Offshore Tax Evasion Acquitted at Trial
Who says that every banker who is charged with aiding and abetting U.S. customers to hide their money offshore is guilty of tax evasion? This is the story of one defendant who forced the government to prove its case and came out victorious. Shokrollah Baravarian, an eighty-two year old retired senior vice president at Mizrahi […]
Etre résident fiscal aux USA : les avantages & inconvénients
Pour ceux qui ne le sauraient pas, je parle français. Français était mon premier cycle majeur au collège et une langue que je suis passionné. A ce jour, je continue à pratiquer mon français en suivant des cours à l’Alliance Française de New York. Au cours des dernières semaines, je l’ai reçu plusieurs demandes de […]
Bank Leumi’s Problems Growing Worse By The Day
Did Bank Leumi Le-Israel (LUMI) help Americans evade taxes? According to Benjamin Lawsky, head of New York’s Department of Financial Services, it did. New York’s banking regulator is asking for more than $300 million to settle an investigation. Bank Leumi’s breach of New York’s banking laws is eerily reminiscent of an earlier brush that the […]
Prudence And Caution: The Antidote to The Hazards of Certifying Nonwillfulness Under The Streamlined Procedures
Back on August 13, 2014, the IRS issued an update of the Internal Revenue Manual that sheds some light on what type of submissions might be ripe for audit under the streamlined procedures. For those unfamiliar with the Internal Revenue Manual, it is the “official source of instructions to IRS personnel relating to the organization, […]