If you have offshore accounts and you failed to comply with requirements to report those accounts, you should talk with a Washington DC tax attorney as soon as possible. The U.S. government has been aggressively cracking down on offshore investors, as well as on banks that cater to U.S. account holders. Many banks have turned over information on accountholders in exchange for avoiding prosecution for their parts in facilitating tax evasion, which means the IRS has information about a substantial number of offshore accounts – and you could be one of them.Read More

The Department of Justice and U.S. taxing authorities have been very aggressive in recent years in fighting the problem of offshore tax evasion. U.S. authorities have gone far beyond just investing foreign financial accounts and investments and are investigating a wide variety of tax-reduction techniques, including the use of insurance wrappers.Read More

Keeping money in an offshore bank account is not illegal. However, under United States law, you are required to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Account each year. You must also comply with other tax requirements, including reporting any and all income earned to the Internal Revenue Service and paying taxes on the income that your offshore investments produce.Read More

The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) started in 2009 and has allowed more than 55,800 taxpayers to come forward and voluntarily report that they failed to file their annual Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Account. Taxpayers have paid more than $9.9 billion in taxes, interest and penalties after coming forward and voluntarily admitting to the IRS that they didn't declare their offshore accounts at foreign banks. While this seems like a substantial amount of money, OVDP was actually created in order to help taxpayers limit the penalties they could face for undeclared offshore accounts.Read More