The Internal Revenue Service has taken in a total of $2.7 billion from holders of offshore bank accounts, the agency said as it announced that 12,000 taxpayers responded to the second round of a partial amnesty program. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said yesterday that the agency’s emphasis on international tax enforcement prompted more people than […]

You’d think if you were about to garnish the wages of a state lawmaker you’d do everything you could to ensure you had the right guy. So imagine State Sen. Lou Correa’s surprise when he received notice at his State Capitol office last month that his earnings were being seized to pay off a debt […]

It’s not too late to enter the IRS 2011 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Initiative (or OVDI). The program runs through August 31, 2011, offering what IRS Commissioner Shulman called the “last, best chance” to come clean. The IRS’s 2009 offshore disclosure program netted about 15,000 taxpayers. See IRS Sets Offshore Amnesty, Part II. Since then, 3,000 […]