Any U.S. taxpayer is expected to comply with IRS rules and regulations, including in situations where a U.S. affiliated person lives abroad. There are strict rules in the United States for taxpayers who have financial accounts outside of this country, even if those taxpayers are living in a foreign jurisdiction and simply have an account in a bank where they live. Depending on the account's value, requirements may include filing an annual Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Account (FBAR). Taxpayers may also be required to disclose foreign assets by filing Form 8938 with their tax returns.

Managing Partner Kevin E. Thorn was recently asked by a DC news source to comment on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s trial taking place in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

While you are required to file your taxes by April each year, sometimes taxpayers need to make changes to the original tax returns that they have filed. In these circumstances, filing an amended return could become necessary.

If you missed the tax deadline, it is important that you act as quickly as possible to file your tax forms. The penalties can be much more serious for not filing at all than for filing but failing to pay your taxes, so you shouldn't hesitate to submit your tax forms for the 2018 year.

The chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) spoke recently to a group of tax professionals at an event hosted by the American Bar Association.  Chief Don Fort told the tax attorneys who he was speaking to that the IRS now has two new enforcement units that are operational and that are working behind the scenes to analyze data to identify patterns and find taxpayers who are evading their U.S. tax obligations.