Following their recent announcement regarding new partnership and global high wealth enforcement initiatives,1 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Oct. 20 announced another enforcement initiative focusing on foreign corporations and the largest corporate taxpayers. Last week, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel announced the IRS would be sending out approximately 150 compliance alerts to U.S.
In February 2020, the IRS announced that it would step up efforts to contact high-income taxpayers (defined as earning $100,000 or more per year), who in prior years have failed to file one or more tax returns. The IRS’s enforcement effort in 2020 was announced, in part, in reaction to a 2018 GAO study that
In July 2019 the IRS identified post offshore voluntary disclosure program (OVDP) compliance as a campaign. The purpose of the campaign is to pursue those OVDP participants who fail to remain compliant with their foreign income and asset reporting requirements. The campaign said that the IRS would address this tax noncompliance through soft letters and
Come the end of September 2016, the Israeli Tax Authority will start forwarding data collected on U.S. citizens and green card holders with financial accounts in Israel to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
This transferring of information is part of FATCA (the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act of 2010), based on an agreement