The IRS is hitting the road, targeting high-income earners who haven’t filed federal income tax returns or paid taxes for 2018 or previous years. The agency estimates that billions are lost in tax dollars from these non-filers. The goal is to collect and the [...]
Do you have financial accounts or foreign assets overseas? If so, did you know that there is a big deadline looming under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)? Foreign institutions are required to obtain IRS Forms W-9/W-8BEN from US clients. Under FATCA, foreign [...]
For years, new clients (and some of our current ones) have been asking why they should bother fixing their prior US tax filings to report previously unreported foreign income or foreign assets. The most common question is “How will the IRS ever know?” Years [...]
As you know by now, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, welcomed their first-born son, Archie, on May 6, 2019. In a prior blog post, we discussed the US tax consequences (individual income tax, international informational, and Expatriation Tax) [...]
On September 11, the IRS announced a new campaign to closely examine whether individuals working at international organizations (I/O) are fully and properly calculating their taxes. The announcement was a surprise and was made at the same time as the announcements for several [...]
A near-record number of U.S. citizens and green card holders expatriated in calendar year 2017—5,133 as reported by the IRS[1]—and this list is widely considered to undercount the true number of expatriates. In fact, since 2010, when Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance [...]
Many of our clients are self-employed consultants who perform their consulting services both in and outside the United States. Many of these clients have asked us how the new tax reform law might affect them. Specifically, they are inquiring about whether they qualify for [...]
On November 27, 2017, the engagement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was announced to the press.[1] Prince Harry asked Markle to marry him in London, and the couple recently set the wedding date for May 19, 2018.[2] Ever since the engagement date was [...]
The IRS appears intent on the continued crackdown of U.S. persons who have failed to properly report their full worldwide income and foreign financial assets to the U.S. government. Consolidation of Elite Specialists in Foreign Asset and Income Reporting On August 2, the IRS [...]
January 30, 2017 Synopsis Last week, a U.S. District Court authorized the IRS to summons a taxpayer with access to information about clients' undisclosed foreign financial assets. Given the IRS’ increasing efforts to discover hidden foreign accounts, The Wolf Group encourages U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts to take [...]
