KPMG e os "Abrigos Fiscais" (Tax Shelters)

Notícia da ITR de 2009-01-06:

"Three guilty in KPMG tax shelter trialInternational Tax Review

A US court has convicted two ex-KPMG executives and a lawyer of tax evasion in one of the biggest tax fraud cases ever.
John Larson and Robert Pfaff, together with Raymond Ruble - a onetime Sidley Austin partner – were found guilty, on December 17, of selling illegal tax shelters from 1996-2005 and depriving the US Treasury of at least $2 billion in revenue.
A fourth man, David Greenberg, was acquitted.
The case, which began in 2005, once involved 17 former KPMG executives and two other individuals. One executive had already pleaded guilty, along with individuals not affiliated with the accountancy firm.
In August last year an appeal court upheld a decision to throw out the indictment of 13 other KPMG executives. Judge Dennis Jacobs said that federal prosecutors had violated the defendants' constitutional right to legal counsel by threatening to indict KPMG if it paid the legal fees of its former partners and employees.
Charges against KPMG were dismissed in 2005 after it paid a $456 million fine."