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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS opened an online site Monday that allows taxpayers who are not required to file a 2019 or 2020 individual income tax return to sign up to receive advance child tax credit (advance CTC) payments, which will begin July 15 (see IRS News Release IR-2021-129). The “Child Tax Credit Non-Filer Sign-Up Tool”

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares 0 Flares Filament.io Made with Flare More Info“> 0 Flares × Our post today features an Op Ed that Les wrote reacting to the Pro Publica release of information.  Because Les is on vacation, I have the opportunity to introduce his post which he asked

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares I wrote about documents bouncing back from the Tax Court last month in connection with the Tax Court policing the timely filing of petitions.  The post caused commenter in chief Bob Kamman to pay careful attention to the orders coming out of the Tax Court and he noticed a particularly bad day for

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In new final regulations (T.D. 9950), Treasury and the IRS have attempted to resolve ambiguities about when a federally declared disaster will lead to a mandatory 60-day postponement of certain time-sensitive tax-related deadlines. The final regulations adopt, with some changes, proposed regulations issued in January (REG-115057-20). The mandatory postponement provision, Sec. 7508A(d), was

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares We are starting to see some fallout from last month’s CIC Services opinion. For example, Tax Notes’ Kristen Parillo discusses[$] Hancock Land Acquisitions v US , another microcaptive case. Parillo’s article explores the parties’ post CIC Services supplemental filings in a case where the taxpayer brought an action alleging that the IRS’s failure to refer its case

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The case of Shitrit v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2021-63 points out the limitations on raising issues other than the revocation of the passport when coming into the Tax Court under the jurisdiction of the passport provision.  Petitioner here tries to persuade the Tax Court to order the issuance of a refund but gets

TweetShareSharePin11 Shares On May 20, 2021, the Court of Federal Claims decided the case of Jolly v. United States, Dk. No. 20-412.  Ms. Jolly pursued the case pro se.  The court lists the opinion as not for publication. The case involves a refund suit covering four tax years.  The court decided not to dismiss her