It is not uncommon for small businesses to rely on friends and family for loans to assist the busine...
Death Is No Defense When It Comes To FBAR Penalties
People often joke that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Well, it turns out that, wh...
IRS Expands Operations And Issues Additional Guidance In Response to Ever-Changing Pandemic Environment
On April 24, 2020, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued an internal memo advising its employees...
Working With Taxing Authorities During The Coronavirus Pandemic
The recently imposed social distancing measures that are critical and essential to our nation’s ba...
IRS To Increase Focus On Delinquent-Filed Returns
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced, in a recent Information Release and Fact Sheet, that i...
Proving ‘Material Participation’ In Today’s Digital Age
The fight over who meets the definition of a “real estate professional” is not a new one. Fortun...
Can You Remotely Satisfy The Material Participation Test?
For many taxpayers with multiple active business interests, the material participation test can be a...
What Happens If The Small Business Administration Tells Me Not To Pay My Business’s Employment Taxes?
For many business taxpayers who have Small Business Administration (SBA) financing that ultimately g...
Taking Advantage Of Expanded Penalty Relief
The recent enactment of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) put many individual taxpayers in a difficult...
Emphasizing Physical Injuries In Settlement Agreements
The United States Tax Court (Court) recently issued a decision highlighting, yet again, the importan...
Can The IRS Really Seize My Assets Without Telling Me First?
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can utilize its jeopardy levy function (i.e., taking a taxpayer�...
The IRS’s Expanding Definition Of Willfulness In FBAR Cases
The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS’s) Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program (Program) has eleme...
IRS Adopts The In-Person Approach
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had an interesting New Year’s resolution for 2018: more in-pers...