tax Advice Archive

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares TAS wants to assist taxpayers in situations in which it can provide meaningful assistance but does not want to waste time where it cannot help.  A good example of a place where it cannot help has occurred because of the pandemic.  Many taxpayers want to know what has happened to their refund or

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Last month TIGTA released its annual review of the IRS’s improper payment reporting requirements under the Payment Integrity Information Act  (PIIA). The focus in this TIGTA report is the IRS’s administration of refundable credits. In the pre-COVID time frame (FY 20), OMB determined that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), and American Opportunity

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Yesterday, we published some data from Carl Smith showing that the service of a new Tax Court petition on the office of Chief Counsel was taking about two months.  Following that observation, Carl did some additional digging and found the service time to vary considerably.  Below is a chart of his most recent

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS on Tuesday released a draft revised 2021 version of Form 941, Employer’s Quarterly Federal Tax Return, reflecting further new and updated payroll tax credits. The current official version was released less than three months earlier on March 9, and the impending further changes reflect Congress’s multiple provisions of temporary payroll tax

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Procedurally Taxing has been at the forefront covering the evolution of the “supervisory approval” requirements of IRC § 6751 (see posts here, here and here). The most recent post from Patrick Murray, a University of Minnesota Law student, argued that in its present, post-Walquist form, IRC § 6751 is of little help to

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today’s post comes from University of Minnesota Law student, Patrick Riley Murray. Mr. Murray is not actually one of my students in my Federal Tax Procedure or the Federal Tax Clinic courses. However, Mr. Murray was referred to me by a student and previous Procedurally Taxing contributor Casey Epstein (see post here), as

TweetShare1SharePin1 Shares On the substantive side of tax issues Congress is focusing on death and taxes as it studies and debates whether to eliminate the stepped up basis currently given to property upon the death of the owner.  This debate is not new.  When I was in law school in the mid-1970s taking a class