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IRS Pays Whistleblower $2 Million Reward

The Internal Revenue Service has given a $2 million reward to a whistleblower who exposed an alleged tax avoidance scheme by an Illinois tool maker that cost the U.S. Treasury hundreds of millions of dollars.
The allegations reported by the anonymous whistleblower against Illinois Tool Works involved the artificial replication of tax basis. A Swiss bank allegedly duplicated its own tax deductions in order for ITW, as a client and unrelated taxpayer, to claim the same deductions as an offset to ITW’s otherwise taxable income.
It is the third time the whistleblower, represented by Phillips & Cohen LLP, has received a seven-figure reward from the IRS, the law firm noted. Last year, the IRS Whistleblower Office awarded him $1.1 million for information about abusive tax shelters allegedly set up by Wall Street banks to help Enron evade taxes on more than $600 million of taxable income.

Hundreds Of Billions Of Dollars Expected To Be Withdrawn From Swiss Banks Amid Tax Evasion Crackdown

UBS expects Swiss banks to see European clients withdraw "hundreds of billions of francs" as a result of steps to stop foreigners using secret accounts to evade taxes. Juerg Zeltner, head of UBS wealth management, reiterated an estimate he gave in May that Switzerland's biggest bank could see outflows of 12-30 billion Swiss francs ($12.8-31.9 billion) from total European assets under management of over 300 billion. "As a consequence of the realignment of the financial centre and the planned withholding tax, we assume that a total of hundreds of billions of francs will flow out of Switzerland," he told the Schweizer Bank magazine in an interview on Monday.

Trillions hidden in offshore accounts

More than half the world’s money passes almost undetected through a series of financial black holes that shelter it from not only the tax collector but from shareholders, partners and wives, a (Pittsburg) Tribune-Review investigation found...From Switzerland and a couple of Caribbean islands, the black holes are in 70 or more countries...studies by several organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, put the total stash at as much as $25 trillion. In contrast, the Commerce Department pegs the gross national product of the United States at more than $15 trillion...

Tax losses to the United States amount to $1 trillion over a decade, according to the Congressional Research Service...Across Europe, experts say tax dodgers undermine economies in places such as Greece and Spain, threatening the euro as a whole.

It isn’t just tax dodgers or “old money” in New York or London who use the accounts. New players have caught on. For every $1 that Western companies invest in China, a Trib analysis found, the Chinese hide $4 offshore.

From 2000 to 2009, that net illicit outflow totaled $2.74 trillion...The shadow economy reaches virtually every place on Earth... Americans who hide money illegally in foreign accounts cost the United States up to $70 billion a year...corporations using mostly legal tax dodges through subsidiaries in offshore financial havens cost the United States $60 billion a year...

Tax evasion no longer is the lead motivation for much of the money flowing into the shadow economy. Often, people simply want to hide what they have — either from law enforcement or lawsuits...Corruption, kickbacks, bribery and illicit trade pricing throughout developing countries accounted for most of the $8.4 trillion siphoned out in the century’s first decade...In developing countries, the amount of money leaking out often equals or exceeds aid flowing in...

 

 

Tax Haven USA: New York Times Articles Expose Need to Abolish Anonymous U.S. Shell Companies

Two recent articles published in The New York Times expose how criminals, terrorists, corrupt foreign politicians, and tax evaders abuse anonymous U.S. shell companies to launder their profits and impede law enforcement investigators, highlighting the need—says Global Financial Integrity (GFI)—for Congress to enact legislation requiring disclosure of the true (human) beneficial owners of corporations, trusts and foundations...

How Delaware Thrives as a Corporate Tax Haven” detailed how the oldest state in the union enables some of the most heinous crimes by allowing arms traffickers, corrupt Washington lobbyists, and drug smugglers, among others, to anonymously shield their activities from law enforcement under the guise of a legitimate U.S. corporation.  While Delaware may be the biggest example, it is not alone.  Nevada, Wyoming and most other states allow varying degrees of anonymity while incorporating.

“Almost two million corporations are formed in the U.S. each year, and the vast majority of those corporations are not required to provide any information—neither names nor addresses—about the true human (beneficial) owners of the firms,” explained Tom Cardamone, managing director of GFI...

Keep the Dictators Out of Malibu,” makes the case for the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act—bi-partisan Congressional legislation which would ban anonymous shell companies from the U.S. financial system...it explains how corrupt foreign dictators, such as Equatorial Guinea’s Obiang family, have used anonymous U.S. corporations to steal from their people.   Indeed, a recent World Bank report revealed that the United States was the top destination for corrupt foreign officials establishing offshore shell companies to launder their money and gain access to the global financial system.

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VIDEO: Hermitage Capital CEO Investigates Russia Tax Fraud

Charlie Rose ON BLOOMBERG TV: Bill Browder, CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management discusses his efforts to investigate the death of his former attorney Sergei Magnitsky who died in prison after revealing a 230 million dollar tax fraud perpetrated by Russian government officials.

Tax alchemy - Tech's avoidance: The rights and wrongs of moving profits offshore to cut tax bills

How the largest tax crackdown in world history failed and could go right again

A hole $21 trillion deep

After the financial crisis—and the demands it placed on government balance sheets—a 2009 summit of the G20 economies decided to do something about the world’s gigantic tax-avoidance problem. According to Britain’s Tax Justice Network, at least $21 trillion and as much as $32 trillion of “unreported private wealth” is being held in tax havens worldwide. The summit launched more than 300 international treaties to force countries acting as tax havens to share information about cross-border bank activity.

Corporate tax avoidance

  The price isn’t right

IN THESE fiscally strained times, those seen as not paying their fair share are obvious targets. Having already launched a crusade against wealthy individuals using Swiss banks and others to evade tax, are America’s tax police about to tighten the screws on the deep-pocketed of the corporate world?

$80 million seized assets 'just tip of the iceberg'

Nearly $80 million of suspected criminal assets frozen by court orders - and a further $17.5 million worth already seized - has been described by police as the "tip of the iceberg". Multimillion-dollar homes, high-performance cars, motorcycles, cash, boats, artwork and jewellery are among the valuables seized since new laws to fight organised crime came into force less than three years ago. There are 590 assets held under the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act estimated to be worth $78 million. They include 104 residential properties, 229 bank accounts or cash, 116 cars and 40 motorcycles.

Majority of British adults say tax avoidance "morally wrong" according to new Christian Aid survey

56% of British adults believe that tax avoidance by multinationals companies (MNCs), while a technically legal way of reducing what they owe the taxman, is morally wrong, and half of people think it should be made illegal...Niall Cooper, Church Action on Poverty, said: ‘The results are overwhelming. If the Government is to listen to the people, they must do more to combat tax avoidance and evasion. ‘In this time of austerity, rich tax-dodging companies are robbing people in poverty of the vital services they depend upon. If we put a stop to tax dodging, the Government could have an extra £35 billion a year to invest in local public services such as hospitals, schools and emergency services, and to better tackle UK poverty.’

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