On March 25, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released guidance related to its “People First Initiative,” a program intended to respond to the challenges of Covid-19, by providing a variety of relief related to IRS deadlines and collection actions (for more information on the IRS’s People First Initiative, please see our previous blog articles [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court recently refused to hear an appeal from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Knappe v. United States of America, 713 F.3d 1164 (9th Cir., 2013), cert denied, 134 S. Ct. 422 (2013). The issue was whether an estate could rely on the advice of a CPA as to when a [...]
This is the fourth article in a series dedicated to using Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 as protection for businesses that have been using independent contractors, in good faith, but are now facing an IRS or State of Minnesota audit of that practice. Section 530 may be 34 years old, but it [...]