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- “Practitioners Debate Fairness Of Lack of OVDP Retroactivity” by Andrew Velarde
- 2 common payroll tax mistakes and how you can avoid them
- 2 subtle tax mistakes that can cost your business a fortune
- 2022 IRS Dirty Dozen List
- 3 alternatives to an offer in compromise
- 3 common reasons people end up with tax trouble
- 3 mistakes to avoid when facing an IRS audit
- 4 reasons people don’t file taxes
- A Look at the IRS Reorganization from the Inside: A Personal View of the old Sacramento District
- ABA Taxation Section Vents About OVDI Uncertainty
- American Citizens Abroad
- American Ex Pats Beware!
- American Expatriates in Panama and FATCA
- Americans Abroad: Welcome to the Hotel California: “You Can Check Out Any Time You Like But You Can Never Leave.”
- ANOTHER FATCA DELAY: Good for the Banks but Nothing for Americans Abroad
- Another FATCA Red Herring: A Good Way To Defeat FATCA Is To Defeat Obama In November
- Being tax-efficient with your small business
- BITCOIN USERS BEWARE: THE IRS MAY BE LOOKING FOR YOUR NAME
- Cal CPA
- CHANGES IN IRS ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES: FBARs and OFFSHORE VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES (OVDP)
- Commissioner Shulman Retires After Five Years of Service as Commissioner
- Compliance Dilemma For Americans Abroad With No Tax Liability To The United States
- COUNT DOWN TO FATCA: FATCA MYTHS AND FACTS I
- COVID-19 ECONOMIC IMPACT PAYMENT: WHAT IF YOU ARE A DELINQUENT NON FILER?
- COVID-19 Response and Relief Resources
- COVID-19–THE PEOPLE FIRST INITIATIVE– AND DELINQUENT TAXPAYERS: A CHANCE TO JOIN THE IRS FRESH START PROGRAM?
- Currently Not Collectible Status: An Option for IRS Tax Relief
- Do you need to pay taxes on your side hustle?
- Examination Collectibility Consideration: Another Example of IRS Inefficiency
- FACTA II: Intergovernmental Agreements Take FATCA Partners One Step Closer To A Virtual International Banking Data Base
- FATCA ENFORCEMENT, VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES, AND THE STREAMLINED EXPRESS: WINNERS AND LOSERS
- FATCA Red Herring
- FATCA UPDATE: EASING THE “BURDEN” ON FOREIGN BANKS AND THE LIST OF “BAD” BANKS
- FATCA, FBARs, AND THE IRS: THE EROSION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF VOLUNTARY SELF-REPORTING
- FATCA: ‘Simple Premise’ Gone Terribly Wrong
- FATCA: “There’s No Point In Complaining. It’s Here To Stay.”
- FBAR Penalty Administration: “Good Government” Or “Bad Government”?
- FBAR: Purpose and penalties
- FBARs Due June 30, 2015: Continuing Challenges For the Practitioner
- Freelancers must remember these key tax points
- Has the IRS Reorganization Worked?
- How To Report Foreign Real Estate Held In A So-Called Foreign “Trust”
- HOW TO STOP THE IRS FROM CHARGING EXCESSIVE INTEREST ON TAXES OWED
- I haven’t filed my taxes in years. What can I do?
- Impact of Budget Cuts on IRS
- Insights From Canadian Expats!
- Installment Agreements in the Time of COVID-19
- IRS Changes to OIC: Much Ado About Nothing
- IRS Collection Appeals
- IRS Collection Financial Standards: Allowable Expenses
- IRS Collections – An Overview
- IRS Innocent Spouse Relief
- IRS Installment Agreement: An Option for IRS Tax Relief
- IRS Offer in Compromise
- IRS Order to Employees: Evacuate Your Post of Duty
- IRS OVDP Ending: Last Chance for Some Taxpayers with Unreported Foreign Financial Assets
- IRS Publications 1 and 594
- IRS Tax Liens – The Basics
- IRS TO ISSUE MORE TICKETS TO THE TAX COURT IN 2015
- IRS To Receive $80 Billion For Enforcement: Time to Get Right with the IRS?
- IRS Tries to Simplify Filing Dates
- IRS, FATCA, NSA, And The International Banking Conspiracy
- Is an IRS installment agreement right for you?
- It’s Time For Common Sense And Fairness For American Expatriates !
- Jackie Bugnion, Former Tax Director of American Citizens Abroad, Comments to U.S. Senate Finance Committee Request for Tax Reform Proposals: Adopt Residence-Based Taxation (RBT) for Americans Resident Overseas
- Living in the World of COVID-19: You May Want to Check in with the IRS to Make Sure They Know Where to Find You!
- Living With FATCA Uncertainty: What Should A Foreign Financial Institution Do Until A Bilateral Agreement Is Signed?
- Mistakes in filing a decedent’s final tax return can be costly
- NATIONAL TAXPAYER ADVOCATE: IRS ASSESSMENT OF SOME INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION RETURN PENALTIES MAY BE ILLEGAL
- New Commissioner Raises Hopes for Tax Justice for Americans Abroad
- NEW COVID-19 PROTOCOLS: IRS AGENTS ARE NOW PERMITTED TO USE EMAIL
- New FBAR Filing Due Date in Effect
- New IRS Streamlined Procedure for Offshore Disclosures
- New Reporting Disclosure Burden for Small Businesses
- New Rules For Foreign (Non-American) Banks with American Clients
- Not Required to File a Tax Return? Maybe You Should File Anyway
- NRP Audits – The Honest Taxpayer’s Worst Nightmare
- Offshore Voluntary Disclosures Update: Where Is IRS Appeals?
- ONE GOOD REASON TO DO SOMETHING NOW ABOUT YOUR FOREIGN ACCOUNT: KEEP YOUR CHILDREN AND HEIRS FROM LOSING THEIR INHERITANCE TO GOVERNMENT FINES AND LAWYERS FEES
- Opt Out of Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program? We Need To See the National Office Appeals Coordinated Issues Paper Now!
- OVDI STREAMLINED PROCEDURE COULD BE GREATLY IMPROVED
- Owe An IRS Tax Debt? You May Soon Be Contacted By A Private Collection Agency!
- Owe Taxes: Your Passport is at Risk
- PANAMA PAPERS: A POSSIBLE TREASURE TROVE FOR THE IRS AND WORLD-WIDE TAX ENFORCEMENT: WHO NEEDS FATCA?
- Panama Report Part II: Panamanian Bankers React to FATCA
- Paycheck Protection Program Loan: Tax Implications
- Phasing in FATCA: How Will Foreign Banks Determine Which Of Their Customers Have To Be Reported To The IRS?
- Potential red flags for the IRS
- PRESSURE GROWS TO EXTEND THE 2020 FILING DEADLINE WHILE IRS STRUGGLES TO COMPLETE ITS WORK ON 2019
- Procrastination is a Killer When it Comes to Taxes
- Professor Dick Harvey, Jr., gives us a wonderful article on issues of FATCA
- Published Article On TaxIndiaInternational.com
- Renewing Your US Passport? BEWARE — – State Department Turns Over Your Social Security Number & Location to the IRS
- Report on Miami FATCA Conference
- Republication of “Concerns About the Taxation of Americans Resident Abroad” by Jacqueline Bugnion
- Republication of Moodys Gartner Tax Law’s Blog “Updated IRS Streamlined Filing Program: Snowbirds Beware”
- SIXTEEN YEARS LATER: WAS THE 1998 IRS REORGANIZATION GOOD GOVERNMENT OR BAD GOVERNMENT?
- Some common red flags that can trigger an IRS audit
- Some Thoughts on the National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2013 Annual Report to Congress
- Stacking Up Penalties Is Nothing New For The IRS
- State of IRS Operations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
- Steve Mopsick and Ryan Carrere Are Pleased To Announce That Kathleen Donelan-Maher Is Joining Them In Partnership
- Steven Mopsick and Ryan Carrere Recognized in Northern California Magazines
- Summa Holdings – IRS Pushed Back on Substance Over Form Doctrine
- Superseding Tax Return v. Amended Tax Return
- Tax avoidance vs. tax evasion: What you need to know
- Tax Conference – Federal Tax Practice & Procedure – 90 Years of Tax Wisdom
- Tax Court Moves Quickly to Make Virtual Proceedings a Reality
- Tax Justice for Americans Abroad
- Tax Justice for Americans Abroad: IRS Needs to Adopt a “Same Country Exception” to Exempt Americans Living Abroad from the FATCA Dragnet
- Tax Justice For Americans Abroad? Some May Pay 5% Penalty Instead Of The Monster 27.5% Penalty
- Tax Justice II: No FBAR Penalties For Otherwise Compliant Recent Immigrants To The United States
- Taxpayer Advocate Releases 2022 Annual Report
- Taxpayer Rights
- The Bank Leumi Story: Another “Bait And Switch” Or Is It Good News For Some OVDI Practitioners And Taxpayers?
- THE FREE LUNCH EMPLOYEE BENEFIT DEBATE: CHANGES AHEAD AT THE GOOGLEPLEX?
- The IRS Tea Party Scandal
- The New “Taxpayer Experience Office” Lays the Foundation For a New and Enhanced IRS of the 21st Century
- The New Streamlined Foreign Offshore Procedures Contain a Trap for Unwary Americans Abroad
- The Unintended Consequences Of FATCA And The Bank Secrecy Act
- Tips for Choosing a Tax Professional
- U.S. v. Bohanec – Another Court Case on the Willful FBAR Penalty
- UNDERSTAFFING THE IRS HURTS A LOT MORE THAN TAXPAYER SERVICE
- Understanding The FATCA Regulations: The Search For Suspected Americans With Offshore Accounts
- Understanding your tax relief options
- Update On Current Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Practice: IRS Report Card: C-
- Update on the Veterans Tax Assistance Project
- VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURES and FATCA: WILL YOU GET CAUGHT IF YOU DO NOTHING?
- What are your options if you didn’t know you need to file FBARs?
- What does business tax fraud look like?
- What Happens When the IRS Issues a Levy?
- What is a Substitute for Return?
- What is an offer in compromise?
- Who Said The IRS Doesn’t Give a Hoot About Providing Guidance to American Expats?!
- Whoever Said The IRS Lacked Common Sense?
- Why do people make voluntary disclosures to the IRS?
- Why startups should be concerned about taxes
- Will your California estate need to pay taxes?
- WORKING WITH THE IRS WHILE IT IS IN THE PENALTY BOX: MIDYEAR REPORT FROM NATIONAL TAXPAYER ADVOCATE
- WORST KEPT IRS SECRET