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How Do You Know the IRS Received What You Sent?
By George W. Connelly In any given year, a person is likely to send one or more of a fairly standard variety of items to the IRS. Tax returns, payments, responses to inquiries, and claims for refund...
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Will “Starving the Beast” Mean the End of the Taxpayer Advocate’s Office?
By George W. Connelly Your writer has been dealing with tax disputes for over 40 years, and believes that the two most important developments for taxpayers were the passage of the 1998 IRS...
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Where Does the IRS Get Off Telling You How to Run Your Business?
By George W. Connelly When the IRS audits a tax return involving a business, its agents invariably get involved in questions of recordkeeping and how transactions are conducted and recorded. All too...
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If The Job Offer Includes A Loan From The Employer, Talk To Your Tax Adviser...
By George W. Connelly It is not uncommon for sought-after job seekers to receive what appears to be an offer that is too good to be true: in addition to a good compensation and benefits package, the...
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Don’t Be A Victim Of One Of The IRS “Dirty Dozen Tax Scams” For 2012
By George W. Connelly In February, the IRS published its annual “Dirty Dozen” listing of tax scams to caution taxpayers about problems they may face in this filing season. They range from...
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Under Water on Your Home Mortgage? Talk to Your Tax Advisor Before You Take...
By George W. Connelly Recently, the IRS issued “Tax Tip 2012-39″ regarding important issues concerning mortgage debt forgiveness. While anyone capable of reading this Blawg is capable of pulling that...
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Is the IRS Going Easier on Taxpayers with Foreign Accounts?
By George W. Connelly Noooo! But the IRS does seem to be getting more rational in a couple of respects. On May 18, an IRS Associate Area Counsel for Philadelphia explained that the IRS may send...
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What Can The IRS Do If You Go Out Of Business?
By George W. Connelly Obviously, there will be “nothing” to do unless the business owes taxes or has not filed all its tax returns. These comments are prompted by the fact is that the IRS has just...
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What Will The IRS Do If You Don’t Prepare An Income Tax Return?
By George W. Connelly Well for starters, it won’t be very happy! Beyond that, the IRS has several avenues it can pursue. In extreme situations, such as where a taxpayer owes a considerable sum of...
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How Does the IRS Treat Federal Agencies Who Owe Employment Taxes?
By George W. Connelly Previous Blawg articles have cautioned my readers about the problems they can face if they do not take care of their Federal employment taxes, ranging from collection action...
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How Does IRS Police Its Own Lawyers?
By George W. Connelly The IRS employs many lawyers and employees of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel are its principal legal staff who number 1560, of whom about 550 work in the IRS National Office in...
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Before You Abandon That Underwater House, Read This!
By George W. Connelly The Tax Court recently issued a Summary Opinion, Malonzo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, T.C. Summ. Op. 2013-47, involving an individual who was underwater on her mortgage,...
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Who Audits TIGTA?
By George W. Connelly The Inspector General for Tax Administration, TIGTA, has been in the news a lot lately. In addition to tracking down misbehaving IRS employees and misbehaving representatives, an...
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What Happens If We Abolish the IRS?
By George W. Connelly Hardly a day goes by when some politician or editorial person doesn’t suggest that we don’t need the IRS or should simply do away with it. Most of them come in connection with...
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