On August 29, 2012 we posted Fifth Amendment Does Not Apply to Offshore Banking Records, where we discussed that the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination does not apply to records that fall under the Required Records Doctrine, and a taxpayer who is the subject of a grand jury investigation into his use of offshore bank accounts cannot invoke the privilege to resist compliance with a subpoena seeking records kept pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled Aug. 27 (In re Special February 2011-1 Grand Jury Subpoena DatedSeptember 12, 2011, 7th Cir., No. 11-3799, 8/27/12).
Now the Third Circuit ruled that a married couple must turn over their foreign bank account records to the Internal Revenue Service, saying the couple can’t shield themselves by Read more
