Tuesday, April 19, 2016

IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program

Timing!

April 18:  http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/18/irs-urges-americans-come-clean-now-before-we-read-panama-papers.html

Fear and Panic!  At least for those whose fiscal year ended on 31 Dec. 2015!

Ooops! Tax return already in the mail? 

Funny thing:  A google search today, 9:45 PDT 19 April shows this story as 20 hours ago.  However searching on the subject line in quotes for the past week shows that it was released 17 April by NBC.

My prior post on companies In-Q-Tel invested in that related to spying on evident activity either geo located or subject oriented had an aim at data mining lots of "little fish" individuals aggregated to some statistical blip associated with actionable information.

It would be revealing to somehow apply the same techniques associating individuals at a corporate level to their corporate telling activity related to revealing data points.....whatever they might be...to see what they might be saying, where they might be saying it and where they might be going.  Like tail numbers of aircraft going to off shore locations and not for vacation purposes!  Tweet blips to geo locaton of big accounting firms.  Probably lost however in the volume of 18 April tax stuff but maybe telling if 19 April traffic is an anomaly.  From and to and content might be revealing?  That of course is not known to everyone, only those with the capability.  Those with capability would have had to schedule computer/analyst overtime for the 19th sting if this was a set up on the 18th.

Its an old tactic:  Turn on the light at watch what scurries.  Set of a bomb outside and then get whoever runs out with second one.  That probably hit the key word alarm!  Sorry guys, false alarm!  Just an analogy.

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