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AMLA 2020: Sweeping New AML Laws Have Broad Impacts on All Financial Crimes

By Don Fort, Christopher M. Ferguson, and Olivia Renensland The White Collar Crime Committee Newsletter, published by the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s White Collar Crime Committee Winter/Spring 2021 On January 1, 2021, following House and Senate overrides of a presidential veto, the National Defense Authorization Act (“NDAA”) for Fiscal Year

The New Age of International Criminal Tax Enforcement

By Caroline D. Ciraolo and John D. (Don) Fort Journal of Tax Practice & Procedure Winter 2020 Edition The current global economic landscape presents challenges for tax authorities around the world—reduced tax revenue, limited resources for compliance and enforcement, and increased risk of noncompliance. In the face of such challenges, governments

Mitigating IRS Cryptocurrency Enforcement Risk in 2021

The high-stakes game of chicken regarding the IRS's enforcement of tax violations involving cryptocurrency holders is poised to move to the next level in 2021, K&F Director of Investigations Don Fort and Partner Lawrence Sannicandro explain in a recent Law360 article. After several years of warning taxpayers about civil and

Two Georgetown Law School Students Complete Their K&F Externships

This Fall, K&F hosted two students completing Georgetown Law School’s LLM program in tax law.  Sarah McIntosh and Sadi Moradi joined us as externs while they studied post-graduate level tax law at Georgetown.  Ms. McIntosh expects to earn her LLM this Spring and has previously interned at the Office of

Focus On High Net Worth Nonfilers

By Megan L. Brackney Tax Notes Federal September 28, 2020 In a Sept. 28, 2020 Tax Notes article entitled, “Focus on High-Net-Worth Nonfilers,” Megan Brackney examines what taxpayers who fail to file returns can expect from the IRS, and she offers strategies to avoid some of the harsher potential consequences of