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Time running out for Credit Suisse undisclosed account holders!

A California Federal Judge signed an Order on April 7, 2011, giving the Internal Revenue Service the right to serve a summons on HSBC USA.  The summons would provide the government with the identity of current taxpayers whose accounts are already in question.

On April 7, 2011, the DOJ announced that the government has expanded its focus to include undisclosed foreign bank accounts with HSBC. The government has reason to believe that many unnamed taxpayers have been investing with HSBC India through HSBC USA in order to evade taxes.

The IRS’s New Amnesty Program can help individuals with undisclosed accounts avoid incarceration but the program expires on August 31, 2011.  I believe this is the perfect time for taxpayers with undisclosed accounts to take advantage of the IRS’s New Amnesty Program for undisclosed offshore accounts.

Arthur Joel Eisenberg, an undisclosed offshore account holder with Swiss bank UBS, pled guilty in a federal court in Seattle, Washington. Eisenberg was charged of willfully filing a false tax return as well as failing to disclose that he had a financial interest in an offshore account. He paid a $2.1 million penalty for failing to file a FBAR; in addition to incarceration and future probation.