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Demystifying Irs Transcripts, Robert D. Probasco, Nikki Mccain, Ann Garza

Robert Probasco

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Groves V. United States (Seventh Circuit Court Of Appeals Brief), T. Keith Fogg

W. Edward "Ted" Afield

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Behind The Curtain - What Happens After You File A Federal Tax Return, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Tax Shelter Disclosure And Penalties: New Requirements, New Exposures, Mary A. Mcnulty, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

One of the primary weapons in the battle against tax shelters has been mandatory disclosure to the IRS. The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 built on this approach by clarifying and making consistent the various disclosure requirements and strengthening penalties for non-disclosure. To uncover abusive transactions, Congress drew the boundaries of disclosure so broadly that even legitimate tax planning transactions are covered. To understand the dangers in the new rules, one must look at the broad range of transactions covered, the participants covered, and the harsh penalties for nondisclosure.

- Transactions Covered. The disclosure requirements apply to six categories …

Tefra-Partnership Refunds: Five Steps To Protect A Partner’S Rights, Mary A. Mcnulty, Robert D. Probasco, Carla C. Crapster

Robert Probasco

The Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) established a unified procedure for determining the tax treatment of partnership items at the partnership level rather than the partner level. The TEFRA-partnership refund procedures differ from the refund claim procedures that apply to other taxpayers. For a TEFRA partnership, a refund claim is an administrative adjustment request (AAF) and a notice of deficiency is a notice of final partnership administrative adjustment (FPAA). Procedures for the assessment of additional tax attributable to partnership items have received much attention in recent years, but the procedures concerning refunds are complex and full …

Borenstein V. Commissioner (Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Brief), T. Keith Fogg

W. Edward "Ted" Afield

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Creating A Tax Space For Social Enterprise, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer

The Unreasonable Case For A Reasonable Compensation Standard In The Public Company Context: Why It Is Unreasonable To Insist On Reasonableness, Stuart G. Lazar

Stuart Lazar

There is no question that corporate executives are well paid. But does high executive compensation mean excessive or unreasonable compensation? And if so, what is the solution to curbing the problem of excessive executive pay? More specifically, should the Internal Revenue Code be used as a means for regulating the actions of public companies?

This Article briefly explores these issues. In Part I, this Article provides a narrative of the excessive compensation debate. Without drawing a conclusion as to whether executive compensation is reasonably set or excessive in nature, Part I summarizes the history of public outrage surrounding executive pay. …

Business Lobbying As An Informational Public Good: Can Tax Deductions For Lobbying Expenses Promote Transparency?, Michael Halberstam, Stuart G. Lazar

Stuart Lazar

The view that “lobbying is essentially an informational activity” has persistently served the suggestion that lobbying provides a public good by educating legislators about policy and the consequences of legislation. In this article, we link a proposed tax reform with a substantive disclosure requirement to promote the kind of “information subsidy” that serves the public interest, while mitigating – at least to some extent – the distortion that may result from the imbalance of financial resources on the business side and other institutional contraints identified in the literature. We argue that corporate lobbying should be encouraged – by allowing business …

Basr Partnership V. United States (Federal Circuit Amicus Brief), T. Keith Fogg

W. Edward "Ted" Afield

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Advocating For Clients Whose Debts Were Assigned By The Irs To A Private Collection Agency, Michael Baillif, Robert D. Probasco, Miranda Rhyne

Robert Probasco

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Advocating For Your Client In Trade And Business Expense Cases - Hobby Losses, Rosty Shiller, Robert D. Probasco, Miranda Rhyne

Robert Probasco

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Larson V. United States (Second Circuit Court Of Appeals Brief), T. Keith Fogg

W. Edward "Ted" Afield

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Borenstein V. Commissioner (U.S. Tax Court Brief), T. Keith Fogg

W. Edward "Ted" Afield

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Rethinking Tax Priorities: Marriage Neutrality, Children, And Contemporary Families, James M. Puckett

James Puckett

Tax scholarship has long struggled with whether married taxpayers should be taxed differently from unmarried taxpayers. Currently, married taxpayers are subject to different tax rates than unmarried taxpayers, and may file a joint tax return. A married couple may pay a higher or lower amount of tax than an unmarried couple with the same total income, and a single person generally pays more tax on a given income than a married couple with a single earner with the same income. These outcomes are difficult to reconcile with a commitment to income tax progressivity, which in theory requires that higher incomes …

Partnership Audits And Litigation (Tefra), Robert D. Probasco, Jason Freeman

Robert Probasco

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Don't Leave Money On The Table! Irs [Mis]Computation Of Interest, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Ethics And Expected Changes To Circular 230, Fred Murray, Richard Goldstein, Matthew Lucey, Jack Manhire, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Transferee Liability, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Circular 230 And Rules Of Professional Conduct In Giving Tax Advice, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Transferee Liability, George Hani, Tamara Ashford, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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The Marriage Tax Revisited: An Analysis Of The Tax Consequences Of Marriage, Dan Subotnik

Dan Subotnik

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Compromising The Safety Net: How Limiting Tax Deductions For High-Income Donors Could Undermine Charitable Organizations, Patrick Tolan

Patrick E. Tolan Jr.

President Obama’s recent budget proposals have contemplated reducing the top rate for charitable deductions (and all itemized deductions) to twenty-eight percent. Because America’s largest donors are those in the highest marginal tax brackets, efforts to limit deductibility of charitable donations could have a chilling effect on charitable giving.

In this article the author looks at motivations for charitable donations and specifically at the impact of tax deductibility as a motivating factor. It takes a historical look at the philanthropic surveys and econometric models and examines empirical data concerning impacts of significant changes to the tax code in the 1980s that …

The New Application Of Transferee Liability, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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Tefra Audits And Refund Claims, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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E Tax: The Flat Tax As An Electronic Credit Vat, Daniel S. Goldberg

Daniel S. Goldberg

The article builds on the Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax and proposes a consumption tax called the “E Tax,” which is an electronically collected credit invoice VAT. The Hall-Rabushka Flat Tax is a two-tier consumption tax that is based on a subtraction method VAT. The Hall-Rabushka nuance, however, allows a deduction for wages as if they were purchases of materials by the employer. Wage earners would be taxed on those wages at rates that could be set as graduated or flat, with or without a zero rate or bracket amount and with or without personal exemptions and deductions. Hall and Rabushka proposed …

An "Outside Limit" For Refund Suits: The Case Against The Tax Exception To The Six-Year Bar On Claims Against The Government, Adam Gustafson

Adam R.F. Gustafson

Longstanding judicial precedent and the official position of the IRS agree that federal tax refund suits are limited only by the two-year statute of limitations of § 6532(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, which is triggered only when the IRS mails the claimant a notice of disallowance. This Article contends that tax refund litigation is also governed by the six-year limitation of 28 U.S.C. § 2401(a) on “every civil action commenced against the United States,” which is triggered upon the accrual of a claim. The Supreme Court alluded to this dual-limitation scheme in 2008 in United States v. Clintwood Elkhorn …

Federal Tax Update, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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I.R.C. § 409a And The Small Business, Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey

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Living With Transparency, Robert D. Probasco

Robert Probasco

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