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Internal Revenue Service (IRS) logo. This is a partial list of allegations of misuse of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which traces its roots to the creation of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1862. Examples of political profiling controversies include cases in which IRS employees or government officials have ...
It is regarding the statutory interpretation of 26 U.S.C. § 6330(c) and whether the tax court would have jurisdiction over petitions to the tax court if the petition exceeded the 30 days time frame. In a unanimous decision by the court, they ruled that 30 day timeline is non-jurisdictional and is protected by equitable tolling .
Marrita Murphy and Daniel J. Leveille, Appellants v. Internal Revenue Service and United States of America, Appellees (commonly known as Murphy v.IRS), [1] is a tax case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit originally held that the taxation of emotional distress awards by the federal government is unconstitutional.
An important distinction that the Supreme Court made in this case is that the IRS may issue a summons to help determine taxes due, but it must provide notices to do so, according to IRC 7609(a)(1 ...
The Tax Court noted prior decisions that held a taxpayer to have constructively received funds as of the time of attempted delivery when the taxpayer made a decision to be unavailable to receive that delivery. In this case, the court decided that this was not a conscious decision on the part of the taxpayer to be unavailable.
A dispute over $15,000 could reshape the American tax code and potentially halt $340 billion in government revenue. On Dec. 5, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v.United States, a ...
An independent watchdog within the IRS reported Wednesday that while taxpayer services have vastly improved, the agency is still too slow to resolve identity theft cases with delays that are ...
Enforcing IRS summonses for records of corporate tax shelters; Attacking the use of foreign bank accounts to evade taxes Enforcing IRS summonses for records of offshore credit card transactions; Initiating criminal investigations of suspects in offshore tax evasion cases; Combating schemes that cheat the IRS through abuse of the bankruptcy system