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FinCEN issues extension for certain FBAR filers

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
  • -
  • USA
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  • June 3 2011

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Treasury Department issued Notice 2011-1 (the Notice) on May 31, providing a filing extension until June 30, 2012 for certain U.S. persons with signature authority over, but no financial interest in, foreign financial accounts of their employers and entities related to their employers, who are required to file Form TD F 90-22.1, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR

Final rules on foreign financial account reporting

  • Ropes & Gray LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 3 2011

Last week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued final regulations regarding Form TD F 90-22.1, the Foreign Bank and Financial Account Report (FBAR

Final FBAR reporting rules provide relief, but no exemption, for pension plans investing in foreign accounts

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2011

On February 24, 2011, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of Treasury (FinCEN) issued final rules on FBAR filing requirements applicable to U.S. persons, including U.S. pension plans that invest in foreign financial accounts or who have signature authority over such accounts

Repayment of embezzled funds is not a deductible business loss

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 3 2011

A New York State Administrative Law Judge has held that a taxpayer cannot claim trade or business losses for embezzled funds that she repaid, and could not receive the benefits of loss carryback provisions

State taxing authorities have little sympathy for victims of Madoff and other Ponzi schemes

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 25 2010

On October 17, 2010, Harold Brubaker, who has written several articles on the subject of Madoff and other Ponzi schemes in The Philadelphia Inquirer, reported that the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue has made it extraordinarily frustrating and difficult for victims of Ponzi schemes to recover state tax refunds for tax payments on income that turned out to be illusory

Update on offshore bank secrecy directives by the United States and the Internal Revenue Service : "mining the UBS lake" for US tax evaders

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • Switzerland, USA
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  • August 17 2010

At the present time the good people of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration are sorting out which of the thousands of requested names of US persons and account numbers with UBS will be turned over to the United States shortly in accordance with the U.S.-Swiss agreement

Federal district court finds promoter of “Aegis” system of “trusts” guilty of conspiracy to defraud and aiding the filing of a false tax return

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 16 2010

The defendant in Wasson was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and of aiding in the filing of a false tax return

Treasury, IRS issue proposed regulations and guidance addressing FBAR reporting requirements for retirement plans

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2010

At the end of February, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued proposed amendments to the Bank Secrecy Act regulations governing Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, commonly referred to as “FBAR.”

IRS provides limited relief from foreign account reporting requirements

  • Hogan Lovells
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2010

Regulations issued by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) under the Bank Secrecy Act generally require a U.S. person with a financial interest in, or signature authority over, a bank, securities or other financial account in a foreign country during any year to report the relationship to the IRS

DoJ targets approximately 20,000 investors as co-conspirators in criminal tax fraud investigation of UBS

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2008

The United States Department of Justice has opened a new front on its war against allegedly fraudulent tax shelters