There are few areas of the tax code as complex and potentially confusing as the rules for TEFRA partnership proceedings. Even the most steely-eyed tax pros wince at the details. Nonetheless, TEFRA is at the heart of many of the transactions that the IRS... Read More
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the Tax Court's decision in favor of four taxpayers who were alleged to have participated in what the IRS describes as an Intermediary Transaction tax shelter. The majority opinion, authored by Circuit... Read More
The Tax Court affirmed the proposition that a conservation easement is still a Congressionally sanctioned charitable contribution under section 170 . Conservation easements and the corresponding charitable contribution deduction for the donation of such... Read More
Readers interested in the risks of being audited with respect to income tax noncompliance arising from foreign assets (particularly financial accounts) often ask what it takes for the IRS to prove fraud. I am aware of no standard litmus test of civil... Read More
By Tom Cullinan , Joe DePew , and Shane Lord , Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP We rarely send out Legal Alerts about the so-called "TEFRA" rules that govern partnership audits and litigation because so few people would read them. In... Read More
It seems like as of late the Tax Court is set on slamming every person that comes through its doors claiming a trader status. It feels like it was yesterday when I talked about the Richard Kay case on this blog . There I alluded that a taxpayer who seemed... Read More
The Tax Court's May 6th Announcement requires that most documents, with certain exceptions, filed by represented parties in the Tax Court in open cases in which the petition is filed on or after July 1, 2010. The Announcement document is attached... Read More