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TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In Libitzky v. United States, No. 3:18-cv-00792 (N. D. Cal. 2021) the district court dismisses cross motions for summary judgment in a refund suit and pushes the case forward for a determination by a jury.  The parties agree that the Libitzkys overpaid their 2011 liability by almost $700,000.  They disagree on the issue

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Stock buybacks have gained a bad rap in recent years as policymakers have blamed them for a range of economic ills, from encouraging a focus on short-term profits to reduced investment. Now, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have targeted buybacks for a 2 percent excise tax in the reconciliation package.

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In Oconee Landing Property LLC et al v. Commissioner, Dk. No. 11814-19 the Tax Court entered a very substantive order granting partial summary judgment to the IRS on the issue of penalty approval.  If the Court still designated orders, I suspect it would have designated this one. The IRS in this case uses

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares When Congress debates major legislation, the public often focuses on a single narrow issue—one frequently irrelevant to the main point of the bill. It happened when the Senate debated the $1 trillion infrastructure measure last month: Many paid outsized attention to tax reporting for cryptocurrency, a proposal that would have funded less than

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury Department released a blog authored by Treasury officials Itai Grinberg and Rebecca Kysar. Though the blog purports to make a case for President Biden’s proposal to increase the current minimum tax on foreign profits of U.S. companies, its arguments rely on a very narrow interpretation of current law and

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The IRS on Tuesday detailed how employers must report qualified sick leave wages and qualified family leave wages for leave provided to employees in 2021. Under Notice 2021-53, employers are required to report the qualified leave wages on either box 14 of a 2021 Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement, or on a

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Bob Probasco returns today with an important alert on overpayment interest. Christine A few months ago, Bob Kamman flagged a number of surprising phenomena he’d observed recently, one of which related to refunds for 2020 tax returns.  Normally, when the IRS issues a refund within 45 days of when you filed your return,