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Article: SEN. BAUCUS TACKLES TAX EVASION IN HEARING ON CAYMAN ISLANDS' UGLAND HOUSE

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July 24, 2008
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The Senate Finance Committee issued the following news release:

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today pushed a panel of witnesses on the findings of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the Ugland House, a tax haven in the Cayman Islands that has nearly 19,000 registered tenants, approximately half of which are American. Baucus asked if one solution might be to require financial firms to file information reports to the IRS when they facilitate transfers of client funds offshore, as a method of enabling the IRS to better track tax evaders by matching that report with filed returns. Jack Blum, Counsel at Baker & Hostetler, concurred with the ...

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