Worldwide: Wealth Management

Israel and the United States share a strong bond, and U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status allows access to the largest economy in the world.

The Dirty Dozen American film released by MGM in 1967 depicts wartime law breaking, theft and impersonation, but today we are talking about the IRS' "Dirty Dozen Tax Scams for 2017" list, which depicts law breaking, theft and impersonation issues that are putting taxpayers at risk.

A few months ago, we posited that the DOJ and IRS were expanding offshore enforcement efforts beyond Europe, with a likely new target of those efforts being Singapore.

The U.S. Treasury Department recently issued proposed regulations interpreting sections of the Internal Revenue Code (the Code) commonly referred to as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).

On April 4, 2012, Governor McDonnell signed into law Senate Bill 110 which permits a trustee to exercise a discretionary distribution power by appointing the trust principal or income to the trustee of a second trust.

The People of the State of California and The City of Los Angeles (collectively, the "Plaintiff") are seeking to hold Deutsche Bank National Trust Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee under hundreds of mortgaged-backed securitizations (collectively, the "Trustee"), liable for reparations on thousand of homes in the LA County area.

The US Department of the Interior (DOI) has announced plans to revise the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's (BOEM) 2024 Risk Management and Financial Assurance Rule for offshore oil and gas operations.

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is a well-established offshore financial centre, with over 500,000 registered BVI Business companies. In recent years...

Many of you have asked me to tell you a story about Bob Popeo, one of the greatest lawyers of the modern era.

On February 8, 2012, the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") issued much-awaited proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") that interpret sections of the Internal Revenue Code (the "Code") that were added on March 18, 2010 as part of the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (the "HIRE Act").

On February 8, 2012, the IRS and US Treasury released 389 pages of proposed regulations under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which was enacted for the purpose of combating offshore tax evasion

The world is shrinking. Overseas connections are expanding. Families are spread across countries and continents. Many people in the U.S. (and U.S. citizens living abroad) are beneficiaries of foreign trusts and estates, and even more seek to invest overseas.