On July 29, 2021, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Tax Division, and the IRS Commissioner all announced that a federal court in New York had entered an order “authorizing the IRS to issue summonses requiring multiple couriers and financial institutions to produce information about U.S. taxpayers who may have used the services of Panama Offshore Legal Services (‘POLS’) and its associates (together, the ‘POLS Group’) to evade federal income taxes.” A copy of the news release can be found here. Although the government’s efforts to identify additional foreign assets and accounts is not surprising, the news release does provide another cautionary tale of the government’s power and reach to identify taxpayers who hold foreign accounts and assets overseas without proper reporting and payment of federal taxes.
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