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Supreme Court settles Fifth Amendment required records issue in context of offshore bank accounts

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2013

On May 13, 2013, the Supreme Court denied a taxpayer's petition for certiorari regarding the Seventh Circuit's August 27, 2012, decision applying the

Government runs its record to 4-0 in compelling production of records of offshore bank accounts

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 21 2013

On February 7, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit joined "the three of our sister circuits that have considered the same issue

Financial services legislative and regulatory issues update May 20

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 20 2013

The conflation of three scandals clearly tainted President Obama with The Washington Post’s “Worst Week in Washington” award last week, and in fact

Offshore presence may cause FATCA headache for Australian global financial institutions

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia, USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

As the Australian Government negotiates a potential Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the US in respect of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance

Financial services legislative and regulatory update

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2013

What had been a relatively quiet week, where until Friday it seemed like the biggest news was that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew was working on his

Two more courts 'just say no' to transfer taxes for Fannie and Freddie

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

Last week, two more federal district courts dismissed suits seeking to collect transfer real estate taxes from Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and their

Lump-sum payments from nonqualified deferred compensation plans to nonresident of New York are exempt from New York income tax

  • White & Case LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

A recent advisory opinion from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance concludes that payments received by an individual nonresident of

IRS reverses position to allow expensing of foreclosure costs

  • Bryan Cave LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Income Tax & Accounting) recently released a memorandum (the "Chief Counsel memorandum) that holds that a bank

Bank Leumi Snafu jeopardizes DOJ-IRS offshore enforcement initiatives

  • Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 1 2013

Three times over the past four years, the IRS has given taxpayers with undisclosed offshore accounts the opportunity to come clean and avoid

Terminating bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Bill introduced

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

Last week, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) introduced S. 798, the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act to the United States