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What Do You Need to Know About the Attorney Client Privilege

What do you need to know about the attorney client privilege and how can this provide important protections to individuals and business professionals? The Attorney-Client Privilege is an evidentiary rule that protects both attorneys and their clients from being compelled to disclose confidential communications between them made for the purpose...

US Court of Appeals Upheld Requirement for IRS FBAR Reporting

The Sixth District of the US Court of Appeals upheld requirement for IRS FBAR reporting recently.  The decision affirmed the actions of a US District Court which dismissed a complaint which challenged FATCA and the requirement to come into compliance with IRS FBAR disclosures.   The lawsuit sought to prohibit...

Postmortem Tidbits from the Panama Papers

It's been more than a year since the international "Panama Papers" scandal hit where 11.5 million documents disclosed the true owners of more than 214,000 offshore "shell" companies.  Postmortem tidbits from the Panama Papers provide insight into the genuine risks offshore investors, international businesses, US expats, and foreign nationals living...