The resolution is the second-largest recovery by the Department of Justice in connection with its investigations since 2008 into the facilitation of offshore US tax evasion by foreign banks.
The Z Street case must be viewed in the context of what came to be known as the IRS scandal. During the first term of the Obama administration, the IRS began subjecting conservative groups that applied for nonprofit status as education organizations to the sort of special scrutiny not applied to liberal groups.
We have all heard about how the Tea Parties were targeted by the Obama Administration and the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), but did you know that before all that a pro-Israel organization had the same issues and sued the US Govt.? They won and we have the story from the founder, Lori Lowenthal Marcus!
The Obama administration's discrimination against political viewpoints the Democrats disapprove of is a clear, even astonishing, violation of the First Amendment
A gov't allowed to play fast and loose with the basic rules of fairness to disadvantage conservatives or friends of Israel could easily be employed by different people to discriminate against others.
By JNi.Media
The committee also succeeded in repelling the Israeli tax authority, which wanted initially to be able to use information gathered by Israeli banks for the IRS.
'A handful of zealots hijacked the ASA' to promote their own anti-Israel position' claims the lawsuit against the ASA Israel boycott .
Resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner introduced, based on false statements and failure to comply with subpoena.
The Court queried: 'Is it really the government's position that the IRS can discriminate against its citizens?'
V15's stated goals for the Middle East would result in the end of the Jewish State.
Bank Leumi’s admission is the first time an Israel bank has confessed to helping U.S. customers evade taxes.
Z STREET will have the ability to compel IRS officials to testify as to their practices and produce all records.
The US has been going after international banks who may have violated new money laundering laws.
A federal judge just issued the first substantive ruling in a challenge to the IRS’s pose of political neutrality.
A federal judge instructed the IRS to respond to Z STREET's claim of political discrimination.
By Jewish Press Staff Reporter
The Israel Tax Authority has reached agreement with the U.S. to coordinate info between the IRS and Israeli banks.
A plan to stop tax evasion also threatens to break all limits of confidentiality of Americans in Israel.
By Shalom Bear
In their eagerness to catch a few cheating taxi drivers, did the Tax Authority destroy the reputation of a promising Israeli start-up?
A get-tough IRS policy on Americans living abroad has encouraged some Americans living abroad, including “olim” in Israel, to revoke their American citizenship, the Globes business newspaper reported. The United States taxes its citizens' income even if they have been living abroad for years, and agrees with most banks in the world now expose all […]
By JTA
At least 18 Jewish non-profit groups and non-profit groups that support Israeli institutions have notified tax authorities of likely illegal “diversions” of funds in the past five years. The Washington Post on Sunday published its review of more than 1,000 non-profit organizations that have reported such anomalies since 2008, when the Internal Revenue Service began […]
Unless an organization has political juice, neither the Democrats or the Republicans care when a group of Americans have had their constitutional rights violated by a U.S. government agency.
The IRS insists that there is no legal remedy for determining whether an applicant's constitutional rights have been violated, and that offended parties must be satisfied with a "good enough" remedy, even if it is not perfect.
On Monday the IRS provided the 'smoking gun' pointed at its own head, in reports and information showing that the government agency made decisions based upon the views of pro-Israel groups which disagreed with the administration about the 'Disputed Territories.'
According to the Mas Hachnasa (Israel Tax Authority) website, senior members of the IRS, met yesterday in Jerusalem with the Tax Authority director, Moshe Asher and other senior tax officials, to discuss strengthening cooperation between the authorities. The meeting placed an emphasis on the exchange of information between the two tax authorities and the authorities' […]
By Barry Rubin
Moderate Muslims have been neglected and isolated by this project which has helped the radicals, Islamists, and pro-terrorists.
Will someone sue the US government over politicized tax enforcement?
Just as the IRS targeted conservative groups, according a report, a leaked document states that Israel's Economic Affairs Ministry is targeting Haredi businesses and Yeshivos.
Readers are already asking us if newly appointed acting commissioner of the IRS, Daniel Werfel is a Jew.
Welcome to Obamaland, where death and taxes is no longer an ironic statement, but a grim reality.
parently an affront to J Street's worldview, the focus of which appears to be the creation of a Palestinian State, whether or not that will bring peace.
To assume that your opponents have any decency, as the Republicans habitually do, is to be left behind in Politics 1.0.
Congress is also now investigating what looks like a cover-up of the misdeeds.
The IRS attempted to present its inappropriate conduct as being limited to a small number of organizations, targeted by using only a few key words, acted on by only a few low level IRS employees in a remote office, for a limited time, without the consent or even knowledge of higher level IRS officials. By Monday morning that cover had been entirely blown.
After repeatedly denying it was targeting conservative groups for unfair treatment, the IRS admitted it was treating politically conservative groups in inappropriate ways.
A new book on financial advice for those seeking make aliyah.
Six good reasons why financially, life has become more difficult for American citizens living overseas.
When it comes to the IRS, out of sight is not out of mind.
US citizens living abroad with foreign assets and bank accounts are required to file an FBAR form with the IRS.
An interview with tax attorney Dave Wolf.
An interview with Ron Zalben, about the FBAR and FATCA tax forms and why it's so important to file them.
The IRS has been known to impose sanctions against a bank which knowingly permitted customers to violate FACTA rules.
U.S. taxpayers traveling to the United States with unpaid U.S. tax assessments can be detained at the border, questioned, and flagged for follow-up enforcement. If a taxpayer has an unpaid tax liability and is subject to a resulting Notice of Federal Tax Lien, the IRS may submit identifying taxpayer information to the Treasury Enforcement Communications System (TECS), a database maintained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Numerous Americans in Israel have received their $1000 tax credits per child. Now Uncle Sam wants to make sure you deserved to get it.
By Tibbi Singer
This Jewish guy gets to a small town out in the hinterland, and in his kosher traveler's guide he finds a motel that's run by a Jewish lady. Sunday morning the church bells are ringing and he hears the motel owner yelling out: Jimmy, the bells are ringing, time to go to church! So the […]