Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Senate Press Release and Report on Offshore Evasion Through Shell Banks Skirting FATCA

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Senate Press Release and Report on Offshore Evasion Through Shell Banks Skirting FATCA 

Senator Wyden led a major Senate Finance Committee investigation that produced a press release and report about use of “shell bank” to avoid the FATCA reporting requirements.  See the press release titled Wyden Investigation Uncovers Major Loophole In Offshore Account Reportinghere, and the report titled The Shell Bank Loopholehere.  The press release offers a good summary of the report (see particularly the “Key Findings” in the press release)


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Sixth Circuit Holds Harmless Error to Not Give Correct Jury Instruction on Evasion Statute of Limitations 

In United States v. Pieron (6th Cir. 8/30/22), Unpublished, CA 6 here and GS here [to come]. the Court affirmed Pieron’s tax evasion conviction. Although nonprecedential, I think the opinion offers a lesson for practitioners. I, therefore, report on what the Court described (Slip Op. 4) as “Pieron’s more serious argument” that the trial court failed to give a “correctly stated” jury instruction that the jury was required to find an affirmative act of evasion in the six-year limitations period


Young Ran (Christine) Kim (Cardozo; Google Scholar) & Darien Shanske (UC-Davis; Google Scholar), State Digital Services Taxes: A Good and Permissible Idea (Despite What You Might Have Heard), 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. __ (2022)



Reuven S. Avi-Yonah (Michigan; Google Scholar), Taxing Nomads: Reviving Citizenship-Based Taxation for the 21st Century:

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