Cayman Island Offshore Accounts – Why Expats Need To Be In Full Compliance Now

Two Cayman Island Financial Institutions Plead Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Conspiring to Hide More Than $130 Million in Cayman Island Offshore Accounts

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Chief Richard Weber for the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, (IRS-CI), announced today the guilty pleas of two Cayman Island Financial Institutions hiding assets held by U.S. taxpayers in their Cayman Island Offshore Accounts.

(CNS) and Cayman National Trust Co. Ltd. (CNT), two Cayman Island affiliates of Cayman National Corporation, which provided investment brokerage and trust management services to individuals and entities within and outside the Cayman Islands, including citizens and residents of the United States (U.S. taxpayers).

CNS and CNT pleaded guilty to a criminal Information charging them with conspiring with many of their U.S. taxpayer-clients to hide more than $130 million in offshore accounts from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and to evade U.S. taxes on the income earned in those Cayman Island Offshore Accounts.

CNS and CNT entered their guilty pleas pursuant to plea agreements requiring the companies to, among other things, produce through the treaty process account files of non-compliant U.S. taxpayers who maintained accounts at CNS and CNT, and pay a total of $6 million in financial penalties. The plea proceeding took place today before the Honorable U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Griesa for the Southern District of New York.

At Tax Samaritan, we remind all US expat taxpayers to maintain full compliance regarding the disclosure of not only Cayman Island Offshore Accounts, but all foreign accounts, foreign trusts and income earned thereof on their US tax return.

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