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Monthly Archives: August 2019

Streamline Offshore Submission Turned Criminal!

According to DoJ, a former CPA Indicted for Failing to Report Foreign Bank Accounts and Filing False Documents with the IRS A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging Brian Booker, a former resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, whose business specialized in international trade, with failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial…
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IRS Warns of New IRS Impersonation Email Scam

The IRS and its Security Summit partners warned tax professionals this week about a new IRS impersonation scam campaign spreading nationally on email.   The new scam illustrates the growing sophistication of cybercriminal organizations. The scam now relies on dozens of compromised websites and web addresses that pose as IRS.gov, making it a challenge to…
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DC Magistrate Ruled That Willful FBAR Regulations are Invalid

On August 7, 2018 we posted Court of Claims Rejects Colliot & Wadhan: Willful FBAR Penalty Not Limited to $100,000, where we discussed that July 31, 2018 in Norman v. United States, Ct. Fed. Cl. Dkt 15-872, the Court held that the taxpayer Norman was liable for the FBAR willful penalty and this Court rejected the…
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