US Tax Compliance and Planning – The Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP)

By: Joseph Siegmann, and The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) created the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (OVDP) and the Streamlined Domestic Offshore Procedure (SDOP) to encourage taxpayers to disclose foreign accounts and income that were subject to reporting but were not previously reported to the IRS. While both the OVDP and SDOP encourage taxpayers to disclose…

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