Alexey Manasuev featured in AdvocateDaily.com — Taxpayers likely face less favourable options after U.S. OVDP closes
Author(s): AdvocateDaily.com staff The following article first appeared in AdvocateDaily.com, May 27, 2018.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is closing a program later this year that allowed certain taxpayers to come forward to report undisclosed offshore income — which will likely leave those who wish to become compliant with less advantageous options, Oakville-based U.S. tax attorney Alexey Manasuev tells AdvocateDaily.com. Earlier this year, the IRS announced that it is ramping down it’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP), and will close it on Sept. 28. The OVDP provides an opportunity for delinquent taxpayers with undisclosed income from offshore accounts to become compliant and to avoid criminal prosecution. However, applicants must agree to pay a miscellaneous offshore penalty and other applicable fines — such as accuracy-related, failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties, says Manasuev, principal of U.S. Tax IQ. The miscellaneous offshore penalty may equal 27.5 per cent, or 50 per cent of the highest aggregate value of undisclosed assets during the years covered by the OVDP. “The OVDP usually supposes that a candidate and applicant may have some exposure to criminal prosecution or may potentially have wilful conduct in not complying with U.S. tax filing and reporting requirements. So, the OVDP historically, and as it exists now, has been the option for those taxpayers who have to worry about potential criminal prosecution,” says Manasuev .…
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