Tax Shelters

Global High Wealth Industry Group Created: New IRS Unit Will Target The Very Wealthy

Wall Street Journal | MARTIN VAUGHAN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON -- A new Internal Revenue Service enforcement unit targeting the very wealthy will help the tax agency decode partnerships, offshore trusts...

What Would Grove Do?

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 07.12.2009 | Business


Norb Vonnegut

Grove manages about $2 billion in total assets for wealthy families. He's seen it all inside his investment bank. He'll be joining Acrimoney for a new guest series: What Would Grove Do?

Martin Liecht Ouster From UBS

New York Times | LYNNLEY BROWNING | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


UBS, the Swiss bank under a growing federal investigation for tax fraud, has forced out the executive formerly in charge of secret offshore accounts f...

Gov't Report Slams IRS for Lax Oversight of Tax Preparers

ProPublica | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business


ProPublica

by Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica The IRS allows tax preparers who have been penalized or sentenced in a criminal proceeding for tax shelter violation...

Thomas B. Edsall

Gimme Shelter: Tax Evasion And The Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics


If government watchdogs -- determined to root out waste, fraud and abuse -- want to go after big game, they should skip chasing nickel-dime welfare c...

IRS Hunts Down "Tax Defiers"

New York Times | LYNNLEY BROWNING | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


If you think paying taxes is unfair, illegal or unconstitutional, then watch out -- the Justice Department is after you. Just as the Internal Revenue...

Offshore Tax Shelters Factor Into Romney's Business Success

LA Times | Bob Drogin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


While in private business, Mitt Romney utilized shell companies in two offshore tax havens to help eligible investors avoid paying U.S. taxes, federal...