The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) continues to supply information to the IRS on U.S. Citizen owned investment and bank accounts. According to CBC, CRA has already shared over 1.6 million Canadian banking records with the IRS. Even with the significant sharing of documentation we are still not seeing an increased level of new clients being contacted by the IRS.

You would think that if the IRS has such a large of amount of banking information from United States citizens abroad they would be enforcing compliance by reaching out to these Americans. This might be something that has yet to happen and may be on the horizon.

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