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January 12, 2009: Three senior representatives of the United States Internal Revenue Service will present a session on the tax agency's various offshore initiatives at the 7th Annual OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference, which will be held at the Eden Roc Resort & Spa, in Miami Beach, Florida, on April 26-28, 2009.
They are Daniel Reeves who, for the past seven years, has been the lead investigator of the IRS' Offshore Credit Card Project and other offshore compliance initiatives; John C. McDougal, a Special Trial Attorney for the IRS who, for the last nine years, has served as counsel to the agency's offshore initiatives; and Thomas J. Kelly, Director, Financial Crimes for the IRS, based at its headquarters in Washington, DC.
During their session, Reeves, McDougal and Kelly will discuss IRS civil and criminal enforcement programs and activities designed to identify U. S. taxpayers who illegally avoid or evade payment of required U. S. taxes through the use of offshore bank accounts, entities, structures, investments and other financial arrangements in foreign locations, and to bring them back into compliance.
Specific enforcement programs that will be discussed include offshore compliance initiatives such as the Offshore Credit Card Project, current initiatives using the John Doe Summons Process, the Promoter Investigations Program and the Voluntary Disclosure Practice.
The OffshoreAlert Conference will focus on fraud detection and prevention, anti-money laundering, financial compliance, asset recovery, intelligence-gathering, and general risk management, all with an emphasis on international business transactions, particularly those conducted in and through Offshore Financial Centers.
There will be speakers from the Bahamas, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, France, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Turks & Caicos Islands, the USA, and the United Kingdom.
They include Jeffrey Owens, Director of the OECD's Center for Tax Policy and Administration; Bob Roach, Counsel and Chief Investigator on U. S. Senator Carl Levin's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Edward Robbins, Jr., who defended billionaire UBS client Igor Olenicoff in a criminal tax case that led to the indictments of Bradley Birkenfeld, a former private banker at UBS, and Raoul Weil, Chairman and CEO of Global Wealth Management & Business Banking at UBS.
The Bernard Madoff affair will also be examined at The OffshoreAlert Conference, where attendees will learn how to identify Ponzi schemes so that they may be avoided.
In another session, one of the public relations industry's best-known practitioners, Robert Dilenschneider, will show attendees how to effectively market their message to an international audience and how to handle hostile journalists who are conducting financial investigations.
The 7th Annual OffshoreAlert Financial Due Diligence Conference is taking place on April 26 - 28, 2009 in Miami Beach, Florida at the Eden Roc Resort & Spa. For more information visit www.OffshoreAlertConference.com or contact Naomi Comerford, Conference Manager, by telephone on +1 (305)372-6296.
