For years, FBAR litigants have made the commonsense argument that large willful FBAR penalties, which can exceed the value of the unreported foreign accounts themselves, violate the excessive fines ...
On September 19, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas upended IRS FBAR enforcement in United States v. Sagoo (No. 4:24-cv-01159, N.D. Tex. 2025). Sharnjeet Sagoo, a U.S.
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