On February 21, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that it plans to begin dozens of audits on business aircraft involving personal use, contributing to the Inflation Reduction Act’s efforts to improve tax compliance for high-income individuals and businesses. These audits will focus on aircraft usage by large corporations, partnerships, and wealthy taxpayers, and [...]
As discussed in part one of this series on art donations, a taxpayer who wishes to receive a tax deduction for their charitable donation of a work of art should take several steps in anticipation of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) refusal to allow the deduction. In recent years, especially, the IRS has undertaken a [...]
Despite the relative rarity of an individual taxpayer’s file being brought to United States Tax Court or even audited, many taxpayers nevertheless fear the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) coming after them. This is not without good reason. Responding to an IRS audit alone can be time consuming and involves obtaining and compiling numerous documents. That [...]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) recently released the above “subway map” to illustrate, at a very high level, the stages of a taxpayer’s journey through the tax system. The map provides a high level overview of the processes for tax return preparation, tax return processing, notices from the IRS, audits, appeals, [...]
Defaulted Installment Agreements The IRS expects taxpayers to pay all of their tax liabilities in full, at the latest, at the time the liabilities are due. When this is not possible, the IRS may allow taxpayers to pay their liabilities during a period of time through a monthly payment plan. These payment plans are called [...]
Substantiating business expenses is a common problem for many businesses going through an audit with either the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MDR). In previous blog articles, we addressed the four steps (step 1, step 2, step 3, step 4) to substantiating most business expenses. This article will focus on [...]
Substantiating business expenses is a common problem for businesses going through an audit with either the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MDR). In previous blog articles, we addressed the first, second, and third steps of a four step process in an IRS or MDR substantiation audit. This article will [...]
Substantiating business expenses is a common problem for many businesses going through an audit with either the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MDR). In previous blog articles, we addressed the first and second steps of a four step process in an IRS or MDR substantiation audit. This article will focus [...]
Substantiating business expenses is a common problem for many businesses going through an audit with either the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or the Minnesota Department of Revenue (MDR). In a previous blog article, we addressed the first step of a four step process in an IRS or MDR substantiation audit: proving the payment of expenses. [...]
One of the most critical issues a taxpayer can face during an IRS audit is deciding what information to provide to the IRS. The IRS will typically request information either informally through an Information Document Request (IDR), or formally through an Administrative Summons (Summons). Deciding how to respond can depend on which type of request [...]