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The IRS continues to pursue undisclosed offshore bank accounts aggressively. Although the IRS started with taxpayers hiding money with UBS in Switzerland as outlined below, they have quickly moved to other Swiss banks. UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) Clients Jan. 30, 2012 — Stephen M. Kerr, Michael Quiel and Christopher M. Rusch were charged in […]

Yesterday, a federal grand jury in San Jose, California, indicted Ashvin Desai of San Jose on three counts of tax evasion on $1.3 million in unreported interest income, two counts of willfully aiding the preparation of materially false tax returns and three counts of failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs), […]

According to an exclusive report by Reuters, U.S. authorities are focusing on Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, and Mizrahi-Tefahot. The three Israeli banks have Swiss outposts and were sent a letter dated August 31, 2011 from Deputy Attorney James Cole of the DOJ giving them until September 23, 2011 to produce broad statistical information on their […]