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IRS vs. Japanese

HONOLULU — A federal court in Hawaii pumped the brakes on the IRS’s prosecution of a Japanese resident accused of willful failure to file a foreign bank account report for three years. The man failed to properly file, but this is only because he does not speak English, primarily lives in Japan and relied on an accountant and a mistranslated form that indicated non-residents were exempt from filing.

Read the ruling here.

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