Is there anyone who doesn’t want to save money on taxes? We would all like to at least try. While it’s not a crime to come up with legitimate strategies to reduce your tax bill or minimize business and personal income taxes, it is against...
Read MoreBe Cautious When Choosing A Tax Preparer: Two Maryland Tax Preparers Guilty of Filing False Returns
By Glen Frost, Managing Partner and Mary Lundstedt, Esq., Associate The Comptroller’s Field Enforcement Division and the Criminal Investigations Division of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, working in tandem, investigated and prosecuted two mo...
Read MoreWhat’s Your Alien Tax Status and How Does It Affect Investment Property?
By: Eli S. Noff, Esq., CPA, Partner Mary Lundstedt, Esq., Associate Brent Conrad For tax purposes, a non-U.S. citizen is either a nonresident alien or a resident alien. All aliens are considered nonresident aliens, unless they pass the green card tes...
Read MoreIRS Actively Targeting Taxpayers for Passport Denial/Revocation – Notice CP508C
By: Eli S. Noff, Esq., CPA, Partner & Mary Lundstedt, Esq., Associate The IRS is currently in the process of issuing Notices CP508C to hundreds of thousands of U.S. taxpayers—placing all notified taxpayers’ passports in serious jeopardy. Several ...
Read MoreUnited States V. Garrity: Clarifies Standard of Proof and Establishing Willfulness in FBAR Context
By: Eli Noff, Partner and Mary Lundstedt On April 3, 2018, in United States v. Garrity, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut considered the Government’s suit to reduce to judgment a willful Report of Foreign Bank and Financia...
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