On November 20, 2018, the IRS issued a Memorandum, describing the process for all voluntary disclosures following the closing of the 2014 OVDP on September 28, 2018. The new procedures are effective for all disclosures after September 28, 2018. Under the new procedures, the taxpayers with hidden foreign bank accounts, whose behavior may be considered willful, will find stricter requirements and higher penalties.
Our firm founders David Holtz, Gary Slavett and Igor Drabkin were each selected to the Southern California “SuperLawyers 2016” list in Tax Law.
On August 26, 2010, the Swiss government said it had reviewed approximately 4,450 UBS client accounts and that half of the data had already been handed over to the United States.
The U.S. government expects to investigate thousands more cases of wealthy individuals dodging taxes through offshore bank accounts, in addition to the high profile and highly publicized case against UBS AG. It appears that in addition to probing the Swiss and Caribbean bank accounts, the U.S. may be looking at the Asian banks as well.
