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I swore a mighty oath on a skyscraper of Bibles to never write about RRSPs again, so pretend that this is a post about FBARs...

TL;DR The train is headed straight at you. You cannot tell how far away it is. You can step off the tracks to safety. Alt:...

We get questions. This one came as a comment to a prior blog post. Lightly edited, it says: I am a dual citizen in middle...

I have permission to post this anonymously. With regards to the US Government/IRS/FBAR/OVDI witchhunt/shakedown, I fit the mantle of victimhood at the hands of our...

A real-life story submitted to me today. Draw your own conclusions. I am a foreigner that lived and worked in the US under a work...

I got an email from a reporter, asking some questions about the OVDI and RRSPs.  Here is my email back to her.  I will be...

I talk from time to time with Mark Feldman, a U.S. tax attorney living in Israel. He sent me an interesting question and I got...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/08/08/nb-american-tax-evasion-rules-258.html This is yet another general information story by the mainstream media about the fate of ordinary people caught up in the IRS Commissioner's Career...

Douglas Shulman thinks everyone knows as much about tax law as he does.*  Shockingly, a lot of regular people walking around the planet are unfamiliar...

The following exchange has been posted with permission of the Taxpayer.  I have attempted to take out identifying information.  The Taxpayer's Voluntary Disclosure case is...

This is a comment on another post on my blog. It is important to give this a more prominent platform, so I did a cut/paste...

This email is posted with permission from a correspondent. I don't know this person. The email came from a throw-away account, without a name. When...

UPDATE:  ACA has a web page where you can directly submit your story about the Voluntary Disclosure Program so your voice can be heard in...

One of my correspondents from South America asked me a quick question and I thought it would be best to respond with a blog post....

Over the weekend I received an email from a regular person in the amnesty program.  He is not a client of our firm, and we...

On September 13, 2010 IRS officially announced the PFIC workaround I blogged about on August 11, 2010.  It gives taxpayers the ability to use the...

We do nothing but international tax stuff.  On the outbound side (U.S. humans and companies doing business outside the USA) we have a steady flow...

Here is a September 1, 2010 opinion from the United States District Court in which a taxpayer, after pleading guilty to tax fraud and criminal...

I received this email from John Nolan, an attorney in Frankfurt, and reproduce it with permission: Phil, A quick update from the weekend German press:...

I have been thinking a lot about the Voluntary Disclosure Program and enforcement of tax violations by the IRS. The recent guilty plea by Jack...