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By: Royston Mendonza, Esq. The IRS has a repository of hundreds of notices that it issues to Taxpayers for a variety of issues. In fact, a statement of IRS notice codes released in 2002 is 120 pages ...
Read moreAre 2018 State and Local Real Property Taxes Paid in 2017 deductible or not? The Answer’s in the Statute.
By: John L. Marien On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In light of the various tax cuts contained in the revisions to the Internal Revenue Code, ...
Read moreRecent Tax Court Ruling Limits Statute of Limitations for Foreign Account Reporting
By: Tiffany D. Bell, Esq. In 2010, Congress added to the anxiety of tax practitioners when it expanded the statute of limitations for the IRS to assess income taxes to six years when a taxpayer fails ...
Read moreIRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program Will End on September 28, 2018
By: Randall P. Andreozzi, Esq. The IRS announced on Wednesday that it will officially end the 2014 Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (affectionately known to practitioners as the “OVDP”) on ...
Read moreCan you discharge your tax debt through Bankruptcy?
By: Gary P. Bluestein, Esq. The general view of most accountants and attorneys we talk to is that tax debt is not dischargeable in Bankruptcy. When we tell them that a tax debt may indeed be ...
Read moreAndreozzi Bluestein Litigators Achieve Precedential Tax Court Victory for United States Virgin Islands Taxpayers
In a court-reviewed opinion published on January 29, 2018, the U.S. Tax Court in Coffey, et. al. v. Commissioner, 150 T.C. No. 4, found in favor of the taxpayers and dismissed the Internal Revenue ...
Read moreFBAR Penalties – The Government’s Coin-Flip Burden of Proof on Willfulness
By: Heather L. Marello, Esq. The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91-507, 84 Stat 114 (Oct. 26, 1970), addressed the government’s desire to monitor the use of foreign bank accounts for illegal ...
Read moreWhat Tax Reform Could Mean For Your Clients
By: Michael J. Tedesco, Esq. On December 22nd, 2017 with one stroke of a pen, president Trump signed into law the most sweeping tax law changes in a generation. For the first time in over 30 years ...
Read moreIRS Relaxes Bona Fide Residency Rules in the Wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria
By: Heather L. Marello, Esq. In the wake of recent hurricanes that devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, IRS released Notice 2017-56, Physical Presence of Certain Individuals in the ...
Read moreIRS Delinquent 1120F Campaign – Are You Prepared?
By: Lou Carlow The IRS has identified the failure to file Forms 1120-F as the most recent front for its enhanced campaign to enforce compliance. This campaign sends a clear message to foreign ...
Read moreHow U.S. Foreign Information Reporting applies to Your Cross Border Holdings
By: Michael J. Tedesco As another filing season is upon us, it is important to be aware of the extensive information reporting associated with holding assets outside of the U.S. Failing to file ...
Read moreAndreozzi Bluestein Attorneys Speak on Federal and State Compliance Issues
Buffalo Law Journal’s Michael Petro interviewed Andreozzi Bluestein’s Senior Associate Michael Tedesco and Associate Heather Schmidt on federal and state compliance issues for his Tax Law Special ...
Read moreThe Threat of Parallel Investigations: When Civil Isn’t Civil
By: Justin J. Andreozzi, J.D.; Randall P. Andreozzi, J.D.; and Arlene Hibschweiler, MBA, J.D. While at one time, the IRS would discontinue a civil examination when it began a criminal investigation ...
Read moreLaw Creates New Due Dates for FBAR and Other Tax and Informational Returns
By: Heather Schmidt On Friday, July 31, 2015, President Obama signed H.R. 3236, the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 into law. In addition to ...
Read moreTaxpayer Advocate Service Criticizes IRS’s Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs in 2014 Congressional Report
By: Heather L. Schmidt To combat money laundering and evasion of U.S. income obligations through the use of offshore accounts, Congress imposed a requirement on all United States taxpayers to ...
Read moreFederal Court Approves U.S. Government Issuance Of John Doe Summonses
By: Michael J. Tedesco A Federal Judge recently approved the Internal Revenue Service’s issuance of what is known as a “John Doe” summons¹ to several entities in the U.S who utilized the ...
Read moreRecent Revisions to the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs
By: Randall P. Andreozzi Recent revisions to the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Programs illustrate that the Service is becoming more aggressive and less tolerant with those taxpayers who have not ...
Read moreMatrimonial Law and the IRS
By: Gary Bluestein, Esq. Federal tax law can impact virtually every area of legal practice. For example, in debtor/credit law, certain property is protected from enforced collection, such as a ...
Read moreIRS Makes Significant Changes to the Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program and Streamlined Voluntary Disclosure Program
By: Michael J. Tedesco On June 18, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced significant changes to the offshore voluntary disclosure programs. As part of the announcement, the IRS has ...
Read moreAragona Trust: Passive Activity Losses, the Material Participation Exception, and the Medicare Tax
Generally speaking, most taxpayers, including individuals and trusts, are denied the use of their passive activity losses and credits to offset ordinary income under the passive activity loss ...
Read moreTax Anxiety – Good News & Bad News
With the upcoming hype surrounding taxes as April 15th approaches, anxiety increases for those in tax trouble. A significant number of people have been contacted by the taxing authorities about ...
Read moreThe 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Reverses Tax Court Ruling on Intervention in USVI Cases
On February 20, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit released an opinion allowing the Government of the United States Virgin Islands (“USVI”) to intervene in three ...
Read moreDepartment of Justice Reminds Swiss Banks That Time is Running Out to Participate in a Non-Prosecution Agreement
In a November 5, 2013 post in The Justice Blog, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Tax Division issued a reminder to Swiss Banks that their time is running out to enter into a ...
Read moreLiens and Levies
By: Gregory D. Verdibello, Esq. Once a taxpayer’s liability has been formally recorded on the books and records of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), the IRS may use one of its collection ...
Read moreOffers in Compromise: A Guide
By: Royston Mendonza Overview Very simply, an Offer in Compromise (“Offer”) is where a Taxpayer “offers” a sum of money to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to “compromise” a tax ...
Read moreThere’s Always Something (the IRS) There to Remind Me
Dionne Warwick Bankruptcy Case Seeks to Discharge Taxes By: Daniel Brown “Wishin’ and Hopin’”[2] to discharge more than $10.2 million in taxes, Dionne Warwick filed a Chapter 7 personal ...
Read moreThe New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Grants Relief for Non-Filers
By: Gregory Verdibello Unfiled returns can create financial and emotional stress, and can cause criminal issues for many people. It seems that more and more people are failing to file their returns ...
Read moreShedding Some Light on the PFIC Regime
By: Kenneth A. Grossberg Today, United States investors in foreign corporations often find themselves with an unknown or unexpected problem. In particular, investors in mutual funds organized ...
Read moreFederal Court Authorizes IRS to Issue “John Doe” Summons to UBS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continue to actively seek information about U.S. taxpayers with interests in foreign accounts. The IRS and the DOJ sought ...
Read moreInternal Revenue Service Offers New Guidance on FBAR and OVDP Procedures
The IRS has announced new procedures to aid voluntary disclosures by taxpayers with undisclosed foreign accounts. The new procedures follow the IRS’ January 9, 2012 announcement of the 2012 ...
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