Florida Tax Attorney Blog

April 12, 2012 Action Needed to Comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act Proposed Regulations Florida taxpayers must take affirmative actions to comply with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act....

April 3, 2012 IRS Expands Investigation of Offshore Accounts Beyond Swiss Banks to Israeli, Japanese, and other European Banks The IRS's 2009 and 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiatives ("OVDI") have been very successful in...

March 17, 2012 Swiss Banks "Cooperate" with U.S. Officials Eight Swiss banks recently turned over data on its U.S. clients suspected of tax evasion...

February 3, 2012 Parkes Found Guilty of Bank Fraud for Loans to LLCs On February 2, 2012, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Defendant Timothy Parkes' convictions...

September 28, 2011 IRS Launches New Voluntary Classification Settlement Program for Worker Classification Worker classification issues have been the focus of an increasing amount of attention from the...

August 30, 2011 Hurricane Causes the IRS to Extend the 2011 OVDI Filing Deadline Due to the destruction Hurricane Irene left in her path, the IRS recently announced that...