Bloomberg BusinessWeek authors Devin Leonard and Richard Rubin published a great article this month about the current dysfunction at the IRS caused by underfunding and IRS scandal.
The IRS is not at the top of anyone’s “favorite” list. Now even IRS employees are hating life and moral is at an all time low. Here are
CNN recently released a fascinating look at the computers the IRS uses in “IRS Says It’s Using Technology From JFK’s Time.” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen states that the IRS computer system is “like driving a Model T that now has a great GPS System and wonderful sound system.”
It is common knowledge that
What can you do when the IRS is misbehaving and it directly affects you?
You will have to fight them, but the law allows you to recover your litigation costs if you win.
As many know, the IRS has had a very troubled recent past (i.e. Lois Lerner). Those problems keep getting worse, especially with
The IRS announced the adoption of a “Taxpayer Bill of Rights” Tuesday. I have listed the rights below along with my commentary. Just like our U.S. Constitutional Rights, these “rights” are and will be watered down.
All of us have certain rights we feel strongly about. For instance, folks here in Texas are very concerned
The Western District of Wisconsin recently issued a decision that makes the parsonage exemption unconstitutional as a violation of the Establishment Clause of the US Constitution.
This ruling is controversial and hotly opposed by many. 
The parsonage exemption is found at IRC Section 107, and allows a “minister of the gospel” to exclude 1) the
On September 13th the IRS issued a new revenue procedure that significantly changes equitable innocent spouse relief. I wrote an article that was published Tuesday in the Texas Bar Association’s Texas Tax Lawyer .
I have excerpted part of the article which discusses the significant changes.
It has been said that in life two things are certain, death and taxes. However, some people hope they can protest their way out of one of those certainties.
“Tax protestors” are an interesting group of people who refuses to pay taxes or file tax returns based on constitutional or other legal grounds.
The schemes
Every year the IRS publishes there Dirty Dozen tax scams. These are common scams that taxpayers face, but are most prevalent now during tax season.
Number two on the list is a scam called Phishing. Phishing is a scam typically carried out with the help of unsolicited email or a fake website that poses
In a nutshell injured spouse relief allows an “injured” taxpayer spouse to have his/her tax refund restored that had been previously taken by the IRS and applied to the debt of the other “injuring” spouse.
If spouses file a joint income tax return and an IRS tax debt is owed by one of the spouses,
Why do accountants and attorneys have that annoying “Circular 230” disclaimer in all their emails?
The reason for the disclaimer is practitioners don’t want to run afoul of the “Covered Opinion” rules of Circular 230 (Circular 230 governs practice before the IRS for attorneys, CPAs and enrolled agents).
Currently, if you make a prominent disclosure