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IRS Issues Updated Guidance for FBAR Penalties

The IRS recently issued a memorandum entitled, “Interim Guidance for Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) Penalties.” As explicitly stated in the memorandum, its purpose is to improve the administration of the IRS’s FBAR compliance program. How so? By implementing new procedures. This guidance affects two specific IRMs: 4.26.16 and 4.26.17. For those […]