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		<title>Attorney Laura Pisarello and Attorney Eric Green to Lecture on IRS and CT DRS Tax Procedure at the Connecticut Bar Association</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys Laura Pisarello and Eric Green will teach a course for the Connecticut Bar Association in New Britain, Connecticut on March 21, 2012 on IRS and Connecticut Tax Procedure.  Topics will include audits, appeals, litigation, collection and criminal tax enforcement.]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney Eric Green to speak at the American Bar Association&#8217;s Tax Section Meeting on Estate Planning Gone Awry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the American Bar Association&#8217;s February Tax Section meeting in San Diego, California this February Attorney Eric Green will lead a discussion on Estate Planning Gone Awry: what happens when the advanced estate planning done by practitioners does not work out the way it was planned.  Issues will include Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (&#8220;QPRTs&#8221;), Irrevocable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney Eric Green to Speak at the NAEA&#8217;s National Tax Practice Institute in Las Vegas in August 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Attorney Eric Green will speak at the National Association of Enrolled Agent&#8217;s National Tax Practice Institute being held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada this coming August 2012.  Attorney Green will be lecturing on Advanced Criminal Tax Issues and will be covering all the major Civil and Criminal Tax Representation developments that have occurred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Offshore Programs Produce $4.4 Billion To Date for Nation’s Taxpayers; Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program Reopens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Internal Revenue Service yesterday reopened the offshore voluntary disclosure program to help people hiding offshore accounts get current with their taxes and announced the collection of more than $4.4 billion so far from the two previous international programs. The IRS reopened the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) following continued strong interest from taxpayers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Releases New Tax Gap Estimates; Compliance Rates Remain Statistically Unchanged From Previous Study</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service today released a new set of tax gap estimates for tax year 2006. The tax gap is defined as the amount of tax liability faced by taxpayers that is not paid on time. The new tax gap estimate represents the first full update of the report in five years, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Innocent Spouses Qualify for Relief Under New IRS Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service today released new proposed guidelines designed to provide relief to more innocent spouses requesting equitable relief from income tax liability. A Notice proposing a new revenue procedure, posted today on IRS.gov, revises the threshold requirements for requesting equitable relief and revises the factors used by the IRS in evaluating these requests. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS Releases Guidance on Foreign Financial Asset Reporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service in coming days will release a new information reporting form that taxpayers will use starting this coming tax filing season to report specified foreign financial assets for tax year 2011. Form 8938 (Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets) will be filed by taxpayers with specific types and amounts of foreign financial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convicerpercy.com/irs-releases-guidance-on-foreign-financial-asset-reporting</link>
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		<title>IRS To Ease FBAR Rules For Americans In Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is being reported by tax-news.com that the American Embassy in Ottawa has disclosed that the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will shortly announce an easing of its foreign account reporting rules for US citizens living in Canada. Under the IRS&#8217;s Foreign Bank Account Report (FBAR) rules, any US person (not necessarily a US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.convicerpercy.com/irs-to-ease-fbar-rules-for-americans-in-canada</link>
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		<title>Fifth Circuit Holds Prosecutorial Immunity Inapplicable to Post-Trial Disclosure of Federal Tax Records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Lampton v. Diaz, 639 F.3d 223 (5th Cir. 2011), the Fifth Circuit held that prosecutorial immunity from suit did not extend to a prosecutor’s post-trial transfer of a defendant’s private federal tax records to a state ethics commission. Between 2003 and 2006, Dunnica Lampton (“Lampton”), the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Circuit Upholds Convictions under §§ 7206 and 7212 Based on False Responses to Question on IRS Form 990</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In United States v. Mubayyid, No. 08–1846, 2011 WL 3849749 (1st Cir. Sept. 1, 2011), the First Circuit upheld the defendant’s convictions under 26 U.S.C. §§ 7206(1) and 7212(a), based on his failure to disclose his organization’s non-charitable activities on IRS Form 990. In 1993, Emadeddin Muntasser (“Muntasser”) incorporated Care International, Inc. (“Care”), an organization [...]]]></description>
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