tax Advice Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As the name and its suggests, the Taxpayer First Act (TFA) made numerous changes to the tax code with the general intent of improving taxpayer rights and interaction with the IRS. These changes ranged from the possibly consequential (Sec. 1101’s requirement that the IRS submit a comprehensive customer service strategy to Congress, found

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares When Bryan was writing his post, we had an exchange about OICs.  Some of the comments I provided to him I might have provided in posts over the years, but I will state them here in case we have new readers or old readers with memories like mine.  Most of these comments relate

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS unveiled a new online feature on Monday known as the “Tax Pro Account,” the purpose of which, for now, is to automate the submission of powers of attorney (POAs) to authorize tax practitioners to represent individual taxpayers and tax information authorizations (TIAs) to view their taxpayers’ accounts. But the IRS ultimately

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The case of In re Bowman, No. 20-11512 (E.D. La. 2021) denies debtor’s motion for summary judgement that Ms. Bowman deserves innocent spouse relief.  On its own, the court reviews the issue of its jurisdiction to hear an innocent spouse issue as part of her chapter 13 bankruptcy case and decides that it

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We have often discussed the reach of the 1985 Supreme Court case United States v. Boyle. Section 6651(a)(1) and (2) impose delinquency penalties for failing to file a tax return or pay a tax unless the taxpayer can establish that the failure was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect.  Boyle essentially stands for

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In my written testimony for a recent hearing before the Ways and Means Subcommittees on Select Revenue Measures and Oversight about the tax gap, I discussed some of the current state of taxpayer service at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the many causes for refunds being delayed in the processing of tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today’s post is by frequent guest poster Monte Jackel, Of Counsel at Leo Berwick. In today’s post, Monte discusses his reactions to an article written by Shu-Yi Oei of Boston College Law School and Leigh Osofsky of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A few years ago they wrote an insightful article on the process that led to