IRS Not Screening Informant Reports Well
You may think that the IRS will never see through your brilliant deception, but that will be of no help if your disgruntled ex-employee, ex-spouse or ex-covivant knows all the details and is motivated by public spiritedness or spiteful malevolence to rat you out.
Tax Court Tells Man He Is A Mensch But Alimony Deduction Denied
Letters which do not show a meeting of the minds between the parties cannot collectively constitute a written separation agreement.
Any amounts paid in excess of that required by a written instrument are not considered deductible alimony payments.
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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.