TAXES Archive

TweetShare1SharePin1 Shares We welcome guest blogger Michelle Drumbl. Professor Drumbl runs the tax clinic at Washington & Lee Law School and teaches tax there as well. She started as a clinician at almost the same time I did, and it has been a pleasure to work with her over the years. Starting later this summer

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares This has been a tough year for the IRS.  For a variety of reasons not the least of which is the pandemic, it has faced numerous challenges.  My understanding is that its performance in answering the general phone line during the filing season ranged somewhere between 2-5% which is not good but it’s

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares “Raise ‘em now, we’ll cut ‘em later when we’re back in power.” That’s the message from congressional Republicans to their Democratic colleagues. NBC News  looks at the positioning. Republicans already are attacking Democrats in swing districts for wanting to raise taxes and for backing new funding for IRS enforcement (even though many Republicans

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In 86 questions and answers, the IRS in Notice 2021-31 gave employers, health care plans, and insurers background and clarifications on how to provide premium assistance for COBRA health care continuation benefits to affected employees and other beneficiaries and claim a corresponding tax credit. The temporary premium assistance and credit are available under

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In Rev. Proc. 2021-24, the IRS clarified how individuals who are not otherwise required to file 2020 federal income tax returns can claim advance child tax credit (CTC) payments as well as stimulus payments (i.e., third-round economic impact payments, 2020 recovery rebate credit payments, and additional 2020 recovery rebate credit payments). To process

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In this brief post and following on Professor Bryan Camp’s discussion, I offer some initial observations on the Supreme Court’s CIC Services opinion.  As Keith noted in his introduction to Bryan’s post, I am not disinterested in this issue-with the Harvard Clinic and on behalf of the Center for Taxpayer Rights I helped

TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Today, the Supreme Court handed down a unanimous opinion in CIC Services.  The Court holds that the Anti-Injunction Act does not bar a suit challenging a IRS notice that requires a non-taxpayer to provide information even though the failure to provide the information could result in a penalty.  Today, we bring an observation