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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 60 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: Employee Retention Tax Credit
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 58 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: IRS Investigations
Business Better Podcast Episode: Tax Audits, Investigations, and Global Enforcement - A Conversation with IRS Special Agent Jonathan Schnatz
UK corporate offence of failure to prevent tax evasion
The Panama Papers - What the Fallout Means for U.S. Companies and Professionals
Foreign Bank Account Reporting and Employment Tax Enforcement: Ronn Owens interviews Steve Moskowitz
The Panama Papers & The Tempo of International Corruption Cases
Lauryn Hill's Tax Evasion a 'Battle for Survival': Lawyer
As an American living abroad, you may have experienced firsthand the challenges of finding a financial institution willing to work with you. Whether it’s for opening a bank account, investing in local markets, securing a...more
Recent weeks have seen several notable developments in the UK criminal enforcement landscape...more
Join the Go-To Event of the Year for Mexico’s Anti-Corruption Community. The annual ACI’s Anti-Corruption Summit in Mexico is back to Mexico City on March 22-23, 2022! This is the most important anti-corruption compliance...more
ACI’s and C5’s 10th Edition of Fraud, Asset Tracing & Recovery Miami conference is returning on January 24 – 25, 2022 in person! Deemed as the foremost, can’t-miss event for the Fraud community, it gathers the pre-eminent...more
Meaningful Overlap or Superficial Similarities? On October 3, the release of the Pandora Papers flooded the global media, as millions of documents detailed incidents of wealthy and powerful people allegedly using so-called...more
The release of the Pandora Papers, a leak of approximately 12 million documents, exposed how foreign leaders and private actors use tax havens to conceal their wealth, with the United States a destination of choice. For...more
Tech companies of U.S. origin tend to have compliance programs focused on U.S. laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the "FCPA") and relevant tax and labor laws. The UK has enacted laws covering bribery and...more
This Special Report provides important information regarding two new corporate criminal offences under the UK Criminal Finances Act 2017 (Act) that came into effect on 30 September 2017. To comply with the Act and to...more
Introduction - As part of a global crackdown on tax evasion, the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (the Act) introduced a new offence. From 30 September 2017, an organisation commits a criminal offence if an employee or...more
Increasingly, international bodies are calling for higher standards for gatekeepers, known in the parlance of the Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) as “designated non-financial businesses and professions” (“DNFBPs”)....more
The U.K. government expands its crackdown on tax evaders and the persons who assist them, by targeting businesses who fail to prevent tax evasion....more
One of the more prescient authors I know is Ryan C. Hubbs, a senior manager of fraud investigation and dispute services at Ernst & Young LLP (EY), who, in 2014, wrote an article for Fraud Magazine entitled “Shell Games”. In...more
On May 11, 2016, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued the final version of its long-awaited “Customer Due Diligence Rules” under the Bank Secrecy Act. The final rules impose a new requirement on...more
The idea that a “fifth pillar” of Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) compliance – customer due diligence requiring U.S. banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, commodity futures merchants, and introducing brokers (“covered financial...more
Regulatory Developments - Client Alert: CFPB Proposes Rules Prohibiting Class-Action Waivers in Arbitration Agreements - On May 5, the CFPB issued long-expected proposed rules that will drastically limit the use of...more
As part of the U.S. Treasury Department's ongoing efforts to prevent bad actors from using U.S. companies to conceal money laundering, tax evasion, and other illicit financial activities, the Financial Crimes Enforcement...more
10 considerations for professionals and corporates worldwide in advance of the new law. Overview - In a move widely seen as a response to the so-called “Panama Papers” revelations, the UK Government has enhanced...more
On May 8, 2014, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued regulations to implement three Executive Orders issued by President Obama in March regarding the situation in Ukraine. The...more
The rapid evolution of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (“FATCA”) from a U.S. driven effort to crack down on U.S. offshore tax evaders into an information reporting mechanism being considered for adoption throughout the...more