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Don’t Drop Your Tax Court Petition In the Mailbox

by admin | Feb 2, 2020 | Tax

Photo credit: By EraserGirl – Own work, CC BY 2.0, Link Attorney Scott Boyce must be breathing a sigh of relief. The Tax Court ruled on Monday (January 13, 2020) that his client’s petition will be allowed to go forward rather than be stopped by the strict 90-day...

Couple Loses $7,000+ Tax Refund From Being Two Days Late

by admin | Jan 29, 2020 | Tax, Uncategorized

I hate it when people lose out by barely missing a deadline. A recent decision in the Western District of Wisconsin has an important lesson about deadlines. The lesson is that if you are going to rely on special rules to cut things close, you better understand how the...

Deconstruction – CPA Calls For Appraisal Standards For Deductions

by admin | Jan 24, 2020 | Tax

My recent post titled Tax Court Demolishes Deconstruction Deduction seems to have struck a nerve. The feedback I have gotten indicates that Second Chance Inc., the donee organization is something of an outlier in supporting very high deductions for the donation of...

Gay Rights, Religion And Dinosaurs – My Top Tax Stories Of The Decade

by admin | Jan 23, 2020 | History, Tax

All I was going to write about was taxes. I hadn’t planned on gay rights, religion, crackpot science and sovereign shenanigans, but as I view the last decade, those things kind of stick out. Go figure. A Decade Comes And Goes The decade just ended corresponds well...

Mormons And The Tax Law

by admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Tax

Concern about the $100 billion Mormon horde, the “scandal” I have dubbed EnsignGate seems to still be a thing. I have a little more to share on it, but I would also like to do a bit of review of my Mormon coverage. I have made an attempt to stake a big claim to the...

Tax Court Rescues Taxpayer From The Agent From Hell

by admin | Jan 15, 2020 | Tax

Given everything that gets by the IRS, it is really odd when they seem to put a lot of energy into what looks like a losing case from the get-go involving people who don’t really seem to be getting away with anything. Such, in my view, was reflected in the...