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Taxpayer Seeks Supreme Court Review in Oakbrook Land Holdings v Commissioner
October 25, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares At the most recent ABA Tax Section meeting in Dallas there were multiple panels exploring the intersection of administrative law and tax procedure. One of the hottest issues is the continued attack on the IRS for issuing Internal Revenue Bulletin (IRB) guidance and regulations for violating requirements under the APA and related case

2023 State Business Tax Climate Index
October 25, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Launch Our Interactive Tool Executive Summary The Tax Foundation’s State Business Tax Climate Index enables business leaders, government policymakers, and taxpayers to gauge how their states’ tax systems compare. While there are many ways to show how much is collected in taxes by state governments, the Index is designed to show how well

India’s ‘Pizza Topping Tax’ Leads to Bizarre Legal Battle
October 25, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares India’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) — AKA the ‘pizza topping tax’ — has led to a bizarre legal battle in the populous nation. The GST tax was introduced five years ago and, per a BBC report about the pizza topping situation, has already begun generating over $17 billion (£15 billion) a month for

State Tax Ballot Measures to Watch on Election Day 2022
October 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On Election Day 2022, most eyes will be on Congress, with polls showing control of both chambers up for grabs. But the action is not limited to Washington, D.C.: across the country, voters will decide important questions through state and local ballot measures. At the state level, 25 measures in 12 states relate
The IRS Strikes Back Against Robocalls
October 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Very few issues would touch a red button like talking to a tax practitioner or a taxpayer trying to reach the IRS by phone. In recent years it has felt like Mission Impossible. Last week the IRS began to take action to fight back against one of the problems facing the phone issue

Credit Suisse Ends Tax Probe With $324 Million Payment
October 24, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Credit Suisse has recently been the subject of multiple tax probes worldwide and has agreed to make a $324 million payment to end one situation. Per Reuters, the finance giant will pay the fee to end a French tax probe, which has seen investigators looking into whether the Swiss bank assisted wealthy clients

Retirement account inflation adjustments issued for 2023
October 21, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS on Friday announced the 2023 inflation-adjusted dollar-amount ceilings and thresholds for a wide range of qualified retirement plans and accounts, including traditional individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) and Roth IRAs (Notice 2022-55). The notice also provides the 2023 limits on elective deferrals for plans under Sec. 401(k) and Sec. 403(b) and most
Updates from the ABA Tax Section 2022 Fall Meeting: Court Procedure & Practice
October 21, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Les, Samantha, Caleb, and I recently returned from the ABA Tax Section’s Fall Meeting in Dallas. Among the excellent sessions I attended was a Recent Developments program of the Court Procedure & Practice committee on October 14. The panelists were Judge Lewis T. Carluzzo, Chief Special Trial Judge, United States Tax Court; Cynthia

Hyundai Says Biden’s EV Tax Changes Are “Astronomical” Blow
October 21, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Hyundai officials have spoken out about the “astronomical blow” they’ve been dealt thanks to the electric vehicle (EV) tax changes that were included in President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. In August, it became apparent that the new regulations applied to very few — if any — of the EV models currently on the

Disaster area filing extensions apply to 2019, 2020 penalty relief
October 20, 2022
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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS is reminding taxpayers living in some disaster-declared areas that the extended time they have to file certain returns includes filing returns to qualify for the penalty relief under Notice 2022-36 for 2019 and 2020 tax returns. The relief, which covers deadlines to file but not to pay taxes, is available to