U.S. Customs and Border Protection has uncovered a scheme to evade tariffs and dumping laws regarding quartz surface products from Mainland China. Simpli Home Ltd. is alleged to have evaded existing tariffs on quartz surface products. By importing bathroom vanities from Vietnam that incorporate quartz surface products from China, Simpli Home Ltd....
Category: Tariff Evasion
U.S. Customs rules U.S. importer Vivaldi evades duties on Chinese quartz products mislabeled as crushed glass
U.S. Customs and Border Protection preliminarily found that two major U.S. importers Vivaldi Commercial LLC and Vivaldi Interiors evaded duties when they imported quartz surface products of Chinese producer Xiamen Sunrise Stone Company Ltd by describing the merchandize as ECO Glass or slabs of crushed glass and failed to report that it...
District of Columbia expands whistleblower law to allow individuals to bring suits for tax law violations and win awards upto 30%

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Furniture business exec who falsified documents evading $1.4 million in duties on Chinese goods sentenced to one year home detention
A furniture business executive who falsified documents to avoid more than $1.4 million in import duties on the Chinese goods he sold was sentenced to a year of home detention Monday.
Jeff Zeng, president of Blue Furniture Solutions, was also sentenced to spend two additional years on supervised release...
Massachusetts chirpractor sentenced to prison for income tax evasion
The owner of a chiropractic business was sentenced to 6 months in prison for tax evasion after pleading guilty to the charge in June 2019, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department's Tax Division.
Richard Rogers, a...Data analytics shows that Chinese companies misclassifying goods to evade US customs tariffs
GateHouse Media data analysts say Chinese importers are misclassifying of products to the US by changing product codes to avoid the higher tariffs. In particular, the analysis reveals nearly a dozen Chinese imports — including woven fabrics, furniture mounts and lamps are being misclassified. The findings correspond with the information provided during...
LLB Verwaltung Swiss bank to pay 10.6 million to the U.S. for concealing U.S. tax evaders from the IRS
LLB Verwaltung (Switzerland) AG, formerly known as “Liechtensteinische Landesbank (Schweiz) AG” (LLB-Switzerland), a Swiss-based private bank, will pay a penalty of $10,680,554.64 to the United States. According to the statement of facts agreed to by the parties, LLB-Switzerland and some of its employees, including members of the bank’s management, conspired with a...