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Deducting Fringe Benefits for Family Members
Small business owners often look for ways to reduce their taxes. With family businesses, these plans often involve employing the owner’s children. This raises the question of whether a small business owner employ their children as independent c…
How Long Do You Keep Your Tax Records?
Taxpayers often ask how long they have to keep their tax records. Many taxpayers only keep records for three to six years. In Reyonoso v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2016-185, the court considered a case that turned on whether the taxpayer could produce records to support that he had made a mark-to-market election nearly twenty years […]
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Adobe PDF File Not Sufficient to Prove Refund Claim Was Timely Filed
The Tax Code imposes several artificial deadlines and consequences for not meeting those deadlines. Tax cases often come down to whether a taxpayer can prove that he met these deadlines. In Chan v. United States, No. 2:15-cv-739-DN-BCW (D. Utah 2016), …
Court Says Five IRS Audits in Ten Years is Not Harassment
In Appenrodt v. United States, No. 3:16-cv-02010-LB (N.D. Cal. 2016), the court concluded that the IRS did not harass a taxpayer by subjecting the taxpayer to five audits in ten years. The facts and procedural history of the case are as follows: The IRS audited Mr. Appenrodt’s individual income tax returns for tax years 2005-2008.[…]
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Choosing Not to Comply With an IRS Summons
The law requires taxpayers to keep certain records. The IRS expects taxpayers to produce these records on request. The IRS has the power to issue an administrative summons if the taxpayer does not cooperate. This begs the question as to what happens if…