Sep. 19, 2012
Lawyers today more likely to 'meet' the IRS crime division
One especially frightening development involves grand jury subpoenas to produce your own offshore bank records. Most lawyers have a knee-jerk reaction to this.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
333 Sacramento St
San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
Fax: (415) 789-4540
Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
Not too many years ago, any type of interaction with the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation Division was rare. Today, though, lawyers and non-lawyers alike are far more likely than ever before to face criminal tax issues. Many people are surprised to learn that the vast majority of IRS criminal tax cases arise because of referrals from the civil division of the IRS. It can start quite innocuously.
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