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.
Tax Court Swamped By Flood Of Petitions
If you are currently being audited and the agent wants you to extend the statute of limitations, consider telling them to pound sand (in a nice way) and be prepared to file a Tax Court petition in the event they forge ahead with a notice of deficiency.
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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.