In a previous article, “Eight Signs Your California Tax Shelter or Offshore Asset Protection Trust Is Actually Tax Evasion,” I pointed out that several partners were in trouble at Arnold and Porter for promoting abusive tax shelters. The current state of charges, indictments, and investigations against other firms are almost too numerous to count.
Indictments [...]

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Now that the big accounting firms have been stung by IRS investigations, indictments, and convictions of the promoters of off the shelf tax shelters (like the POPS, PICOs, and FOCUS of Arnold and Porter), they have largely stopped offering speculative “investments” and offshore asset protection trusts. Now “a few smaller accounting and regional law [...]

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An article by Smart Money highlights 10 Things Millionaires Won’t Tell You, and here are some of the highlights:
The first is that the millionaire club is not as exclusive as it once was – nearly 10 million households qualify – double the number of 2002, largely due to inflation.
The average GPA of [...]

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