9th Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that Tax Perjury is a Deportable Offense
Mr. Jack Townsend, a tax attorney from Houston, TX who has written numerous articles about federal tax crimes, reported today that the The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 days ago that Tax Perjury is a deportable offense. That ruling was made in the case of Kawashima v. Holder, F.3d., (9th Cir. 2010).
According to Mr. Townsend’s article, the Court ruled that section 7206(1) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), Tax Perjury, is a deportable crime. It also ruled that, depending upon the circumstances, section 7206(2) which is Aiding and Assisting someone to commit Tax Perjury, may also be a deportable offense.
When a foreign national is convicted of an offense such as this, if the loss to the victim (in this case, the federal government) exceeds ten-thousand dollars ($10,000.00), he or she is placed in a deportation proceeding and charged as an aggravated felon.
In Mr. Kawashima’s case, he stipulated to a loss in the amount of two-hundred and forty-five thousand dollars ($ 245,000.00). Therefore, once he completes his sentence, he will be placed in deportation proceedings before the Immigration Court.
