On March 13, 2020 the United States Tax Court determined that, due to the current health crisis, the Tax Court buildings will be closed effective immediately. Previously scheduled Tax Court trial sessions will be cancelled including: April 6, 2020: Little Rock, AR; Niagara Falls, NY; San Diego, CA; Seattle, WA April 8, 2020: Chicago, IL April 13, 2020: Washington, DC
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 to include Form 8938 with his tax return. Taxpayers use Form 8938 to report to IRS foreign bank accounts and other specified foreign financial
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 Service’s Statutory Notices of Deficiency against them as time barred. Andreozzi Bluestein LLP represented the Petitioners in this case before the Tax Court. The Petitioners claimed