by admin | Oct 23, 2023 | Tax
I had a hard time figuring out how to respond to a piece by the Editorial Board of the Wall Street Journal – A Case of Tax Fraud – at the IRS (Agent backdated documents to punish legal deductions). They were referring to an IRS screwup that has gotten a...
by admin | Oct 20, 2023 | Tax
The most important recent development in the government’s long battle against abusive syndicated conservation easements. what I call the industry based on nonsense, has to be the outcome of the trial of Jack Fisher, James Sinnott and Clay Weibel. The jury...
by admin | Oct 3, 2023 | Books, Tax
So last week I went to Manhattan with my daughter Kaitlyn. That involves a lot of walking. We stayed at the Sheraton in Weehawken NJ, where Alexander Hamilton fell in a duel with Aaron Burr, and took the ferry in the evening and then the morning. Using the twenty...
by admin | Sep 28, 2023 | Tax, Uncategorized
Michael R. Stevenson is better known by his stage name of Tyga, Tyga is a successful rapper, who like many celebrities has found his way to Tax Court. His attorneys were pushing back against an IRS levy notice on a balance due of over $2 million for just 2019. It...
by admin | Sep 20, 2023 | Tax
When I saw the Ninth Circuit decision in the case of James Tarpey, something about it was familiar. It turns out that the opinion by Judge McKeown upholding a penalty of over $8 million dollars was the finale of a story I picked up on October 1, 2016 with Lawyer...
