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Beyond The FBAR

Other Civil Penalties Lying In Wait For The Unwary Taxpayer With Undisclosed Offshore Assets

With all of the focus on FBAR penalties when it comes to foreign asset reporting, it’s easy to overlook the others, some of which can be just as onerous as the FBAR penalty itself. What other pestilent civil penalties are lying in wait for the unwary taxpayer who decides not to participate in one of the IRS’s voluntary disclosure programs and is subsequently audited?

I. Failure to File a Tax Return Penalty

The civil penalty applicable for failure to timely file returns is section 6651(a)(1). This Read More

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Crimes Under The IRC — Part 1 of 2 – Failure To File, Supply Information or Pay Tax

Underpinning the vast power of the IRS to collect our tax money is the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C), hereafter referred to as the IRC. Subtitle F, Chapter 75, Subchapter A, of the IRC lists the crimes and punishments for anyone convicted of violating our tax law.

The most common violations of the IRC are crimes of omission. The following is a brief discussion of Section 7203, Failure to File, Supply Information or Pay Tax.

Generally, there are four separate offenses described here:

1. Failure to pay the tax — The person is required by law to pay a tax at a time required by law and willfully failed to pay the tax. Willfulness simply means an intentional, voluntary violation of a known legal duty. Read More

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