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Tax Roundup, 3/28/2013: Appeals Court upholds injunction against IRS preparer...
With less than three weeks left in filing season, the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the IRS attempt to overturn the injunction against their preparer regulation scheme. From the...
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Tax Roundup, 6/28/2013: Not dead yet edition
Thought the IRS scandal was dead? IRS Inspector Firm on One-Sided Targeting; Small Number Faced Extra Scrutiny, While All Tea-Party Applications Were Reviewed (Wall Street Journal): Internal Revenue...
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Tax Roundup, 7/17/2013: Stories of wounded jaywalkers. And: checking in on...
Marie Sapirie of Tax Analysts has an excellent piece about how the IRS offshore account enforcement program treats the thousands of ordinary Americans abroad — and many green card holders living in the...
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Tax Roundup, 7/25/2013: Mo’ refundable credits, mo’ fraud. Plus cigarettes...
Refundable tax credits are a magnet fo’ mo’ fraud. Five from Mo’ Money tax prep office in St. Louis arrested in scheme (St. Louis Post-Dispatch): Mo’ Money franchise owner Jimi Clark, 57, of Memphis,...
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Tax Roundup, 8/30/2013: Same-sex joint return frenzy edition.
Wed in Iowa, still married in Utah. The IRS yesterday announced that same-sex couples married legally in any state will be treated as married for tax purposes, even if they reside in a state that does...
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Tax Roundup, 11/6/13: Relief for the road warrior? And the futile state...
Flickr image courtesy Tom Hilton under Creative Commons license Relief for the traveling employee? Tax Analysts reports ($link) that the “Mobile Workforce State Income Tax Simplification Act of 2013″...
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Tax Roundup, 11/7/2013: Cold comfort on 3.8% Investment Income Tax guidance....
Well, that’s reassuring. Tax Analysts reports ($link) that David Kirk, an IRS official involved in drafting the final rules on the 3.8% Obamacare “Net Investment Income Tax” that took effect January...
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Tax Roundup, 11/20/13: Are reports of the death of Instant Tax Service...
“Fez” Ogbazion, Instant Tax Service CEO. Is Instant Tax Service still dead? Maybe not, reports TaxGrrrl: In Apparent Defiance Of Court Order, Fourth Largest Tax Biz In Country Preps For Sale : Within...
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Tax Roundup, 11/26/13: If they can spend your money better than you, by all...
I really wasn’t baiting anybody when I asked Would you trust a state legislator to spend your $54? but Des Moines Register columnist Rekha Basu bit anyway with $54 refund would do us more good if...
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Tax Roundup, 6/30/15: It’s FBAR Day! Foreign and gaming account owners, do or...
Form 114 or bust. Today is the unextendable deadline to file Form 114, the “FBAR” report of foreign financial accounts. It’s required if you own foreign financial accounts whose value reached $10,000...
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