Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
U.S. Tax Shelter Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Confidence Games
Author: Tanina RostainPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262027135
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
The rise and fall of a tax shelter industry that enabled some of America's richest citizens to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. For ten boom-powered years at the turn of the twenty-first century, some of America's most prominent law and accounting firms created and marketed products that enabled the very rich—including newly minted dot-com millionaires—to avoid paying their fair share of taxes by claiming benefits not recognized by law. These abusive domestic tax shelters bore such exotic names as BOSS, BLIPS, and COBRA and were developed by such prestigious firms as KPMG and Ernst & Young. They brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from clients and bilked the U.S. Treasury of billions in revenues before the IRS and Justice Department stepped in with civil penalties and criminal prosecutions. In Confidence Games, Tanina Rostain and Milton Regan describe the rise and fall of the tax shelter industry during this period, offering a riveting account of the most serious episode of professional misconduct in the history of the American bar. Rostain and Regan describe a beleaguered IRS preoccupied by attacks from antitax and antigovernment politicians; heightened competition for professional services; the relaxation of tax practitioner norms against aggressive advice; and the creation of complex financial instruments that made abusive shelters harder to detect. By 2004, the tax shelter boom was over, leaving failed firms, disgraced professionals, and prison sentences in its wake. Rostain and Regan's cautionary tale remains highly relevant today, as lawyers and accountants continue to face intense competitive pressure and regulators still struggle to keep pace with accelerating financial risk and innovation.
U.S. Tax Shelter Industry
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
U.S. Tax Shelter Industry: The Role of Accountants, Lawyers, and Financial Professionals, S. Hrg. 108-473, Vol. 1 of 4, November 18 and 20, 2003, 108-1 Hearings, *.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
U.S. Tax Shelter Industry, the Role of Accountants, Lawyers, and Financial Professionals
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Role of Professional Firms in the U.S. Tax Shelter Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Role of Professional Firms in The U.S. Tax Shelter Industry, April 13, 2005, 109-1 Senate Report No. 109-54
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Activities of the Committee on Governmental Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
State of Criminal Justice 2006
Author: Victor StreibPublisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590317563
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Activities of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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