Tax Cheats

UBS Bank Accounts: More Than 7,500 Americans Come Forward About Secret Foreign Accounts

Anna Schecter and Brian Ross | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business


Faced with a Thursday midnight deadline to avoid possible prosecution, more than 7,500 Americans have come clean about secret foreign bank accounts, a...

Tax Amnesty Deadline: IRS Extends Cutoff For Applicants

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — Procrastinating tax cheats will get a few extra weeks to apply for an amnesty program that has been flooded with applications from ...

IRS Could Mine Mortgage To Catch Tax Cheats

Flife | Martin Vaughn | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service will expand a program designed to catch tax cheats that searches for inconsistencies between mortgage payme...

UBS-Swiss Bank Tax Cheats: Man Admits Hiding $1 Million Overseas

Posted 09.17.2009 | Business


The names of American UBS AG clients who've hidden money overseas to avoid paying millions taxes has begun to trickle in. But the details of just how ...

Rich Americans Scrambling Over Tax Dodge Crackdown

Posted 09.15.2009 | Business


By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A deal with Switzerland settling U.S. demands for the names of suspected tax dodgers from...

Famous Tax Cheats (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.14.2009 | Home


Last year, Americans owed $345 billion more than they did in 2007, amounting to almost 14% of federal revenues, according to the IRS. So, it's not su...

Arthur Delaney

Governments Around The World Pledge To Ease Bank Secrecy

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics


Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said in a statement today that the loosening of foreign governments' bank secrecy laws is "a very welcome development whi...

World Needs Global Financial and Securities Bodies

Diane Francis | Posted 11.21.2008 | Business


Diane Francis

The world economy nearly failed and a global effort by governments and central banks has pulled the system back from the proverbial brink. That's why only a global solution going forward will save the day.

Super-Rich Tax Cheats (VIDEO)

American News Project | Harry Hanbury | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics


They hide an estimated $100 billion a year from the IRS, but now the U.S. Senate is turning up the heat on offshore tax havens. The man who ratted out...

Sen. Levin Calls For UBS To Clean Up Or Shut Down Over Tax Evasion

Huffington Post | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


**UPDATE** The Wall Street Journal reports that UBS will close private-banking operations for U.S. clients: A UBS AG executive told a U.S. Senate pa...

Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Bank Clerk

ABC News | Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business


Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European coun...