A EX - bankers and condemnation tax cheating who told the country tax bureau how to his employer, UBS, help thousands of wealthy clients duck American tax has just $104 million was awarded by the governments of the United States, a summation of his lawyer said the biggest spending once for informer.
Bradley Birkenfeld, he was released from the federal prison six weeks ago, in 2008 to help the customer to avoid to pay federal income tax and other tax of IRS plea. Because of his request, part of the Birkenfeld fact confessed help businessmen igor Olenicoff conceal $20 billion of assets, escape pay $7.2 million tax.
However, although the Birkenfeld confessed their SINS, he also offers a testimony, allowing the justice department punish his employer, forcing ubs admitted that it has allowed its customers through the hide your assets offshore tax evasion. In February 2009, deferred prosecution under the agreement, the company agreed to pay $780 million criminal penalty, for the customers to provide tax avoidance account. Ubs agreed to release the nearly 5000 customers account data.
Birkenfeld lawyer, Stephen m. Cohen and Dean a. ze cloth, headquartered in Washington national whistle-blowers say, because of Birkenfeld, IRS have been able to take an income of $500 million from 33000 American citizens voluntary disclosure its offshore account.
"IRS send 1.04 million news around the world, the snitch - now has a safe and reliable way to report tax fraud," said in a statement, the national informant center. "IRS also sent 1.04 million news, all over the world bank - stop to evade taxes, or you will be caught."
According to Cohen and ze cloth, $1.04 million prize is the world's largest personal informer prize, and awarded for the first time the IRS informer.
IRS report revealed that said, "Birkenfeld the award, and IRS know relevant secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other local tax compliance problem, informer provides information on the Swiss bank (UBS AG) formed on the base of unprecedented action."
Birkenfeld of January 2010 as a prison 40 months. According to the federal bureau of prisons prisoner positioning, Birkenfeld August 1 is released, and for the rest of the sentence in the community correction center in Philadelphia area.
R. Iowa senator Charles grasse and (Charles Grassley), who wrote the informer tax fraud law, said in a statement, "the case to provide evidence against program can be effective, because of this kind of tax fraud, the country tax bureau said, its work never informer. Pay award, in the law allows, IRS encourage brave action by others, to such big dollar tax cheating."
The irs spokesman declined to use Swiss bank account tax evader in recent years have collected much money. In 2009, the United States department of justice and the irs and Switzerland reached an agreement, red and bank (UBS AG) access to information identification information is up to thousands of at the Swiss banking giant account. The department of justice and the country tax bureau officials believe that can be located in these accounts as is as high as 18 billion yuan.




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