IRS Hangs Tough On Conservation Easements
What would be really equitable would be for the IRS to allow donors and land trusts to retroactively fix documents that fail the requirement. The abusive syndicated conservations easements deserve to be crushed, but it should not be at the expense of legitimate deals.
Did IRS Robots Cause The Tax Court Petition Flood?
The part of the problem that is most apparent to me is the IRS computers continue to issue CP series notices and more when the answer to their issues is somewhere in the great warehouse of unopened mail. Documentation. Amended returns. And on and on.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.