The proposed fine is the largest civil penalty assessed by the auto safety regulator against a car maker.
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Those cases may be prosecuted with a view to a jail sentence rather than the imposition of a civil penalty.
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In addition to the civil penalty, the order also requires Google to disable all the tracking cookies it had said it would not place on consumers' computers.
And what I want to do is make sure that in the future, that when people do things like this, it's not a civil penalty, it's a crime.
The IRS could decide to establish a civil penalty framework for post Oct. 15 voluntary disclosures that, while not as favorable as the prior program, would still allow for some reduction in penalties.
"The civil penalty action against China Aviation Oil Holding Company is a signal to the market that we expect all entities undertaking transactions in this jurisdiction to fully comply with Singapore law, " said monetary authority deputy managing director Shane Tregillis.
In declining to extend the Discovery Rule to government civil penalty enforcement actions, the Court cast the government as a unique plaintiff often tasked with rooting out fraud and armed with many arrows in its quiver just for such an undertaking.
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Rather, because these programs provided both protection from criminal prosecution and a potentially favorable civil penalty structure, even taxpayers whose conduct did not evidence the willfulness necessary to support a criminal prosecution made voluntary disclosures to attain certainty regarding their civil exposure.
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Others may decide to risk detection by the IRS and the imposition of substantial penalties, including the civil fraud penalty, numerous foreign information return penalties, and the potential risk of criminal prosecution.
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In its continuing litigation, the CFTC seeks a civil monetary penalty, restitution, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains, trading and registration bans, and preliminary and permanent injunctions against further violations of the federal commodities laws, as charged.
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If they confess by Apr. 15, and rat out the promoters who helped them, the IRS won't recommend them for prosecution or hit them with the civil fraud penalty--equal to 75% of the evaded tax.
Without admitting or denying the allegations, Kapur and his New York hedge fund firm, ThinkStrategy Capital Management, have reached a settlement with the SEC over the civil charges that will involve a civil monetary penalty.
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You can try for small penalties, but once outside the program, the IRS may assess the civil fraud penalty, information return penalties or even pursue criminal prosecution (although that has evidently not happened to anyone yet).
They can still easily find themselves on the wrong side of a whopping civil or criminal penalty.
The penalty for civil tax fraud is 75% of the taxes owed on unreported income.
Instigator of many offshore schemes was Burton W. Kanter, a Chicago attorney who was later slapped with a penalty for civil tax fraud.
On Monday 23 July, the Executive passed a law that prohibits any regional president, mayor, congressman or any other civil employee to participate in manifestations or strikes under penalty of jail.
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The 2012 OVDP offers a civil settlement structure in which taxpayers pay an offshore penalty in lieu of a number of other penalties that may be assessed in cases of offshore noncompliance.
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An individual who fails to pay the penalty is not subject to criminal or additional civil penalties.
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Once the procedure ends, the penalty begins, and, as long as the cruelty is routine, our civil responsibility toward the punished is over.
What's more, because it had taken FIFA to a civil court, which is explicitly forbidden, the Swiss Football Association imposed a stiff 36-point penalty that will likely mean relegation.
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Taxpayers who have entered OVDP who disagree with the application of the offshore penalty given the unique facts and circumstances of their case may elect to opt out of the civil settlement structure of the program.
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Ms Woodford is now an anti-death penalty advocate and is named as the official proposer of the measure, which is backed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
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