This week we look at the following items:

  • Accountant by day, goaltender by night in Chicago
  • IRS publishes statistics on exams, collections, phone wait times and more
  • IRS reminds and warns taxpayers about virtual currency issues
  • IRS recommends taxpayers have a payroll checkup

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Direct download: 2018-04-02_Tending_Goal_and_Mining_Currency.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:39pm EDT

This week we look at the following items:

  • Congress passed bill to fix the grain glitch and passed partnership audit rule changes
  • IRS warns of increasing attacks against tax professionals
  • Series 8453 business forms must be signed manually
  • Supreme Court rules on tax obstruction statute

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Direct download: 2018-03-26_Grain_Glitch_Fix.mp3
Category:Federal Tax Update -- posted at: 4:11pm EDT

Current Federal Tax Developments for the week of March 19, 2018 - Love and the Tax Attorney. Current Federal Tax Developments is brought to you by the state CPA societies and Kaplan Professional Education.

This week we look at the following items:

  • OVDP program to end on September 28, 2018
  • Entire cost of having international firm prepare returns for employees sent overseas treated as wages
  • Conundrum only a tax attorney could love - dealing with a sale case where the regulations don’t give guidance
  • Guidance given on reporting and paying Section 965 transition tax

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Direct download: 2018-03-19_Love_and_the_Tax_Attorney.mp3
Category:Federal Tax Update -- posted at: 3:46pm EDT

Current Federal Tax Developments for the week of March 12, 2018 - A Tale of Two Landlords.  Current Federal Tax Developments is brought to you by the state CPA societies and Kaplan Professional Education.

This week we look at the following items:

  • Revised inflation adjusted numbers released for TCJA changes
  • Male sterilization/contraception no-cost benefit not allowed in HDHP policies regardless of state law
  • Roth IRA found not to actually own a foreign sales corporation
  • Taxpayers’ reconstructed records and recollections not enough to prove real estate professional status
  • Architect able to convince court he was a real estate professional with a single four-plex

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Direct download: 2018-03-12_A_Tale_of_Two_Landlords.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:04am EDT

This week we look at the following items:

  • Storage battery for solar system can qualify for credit - but with key conditions
  • Two courts disagree on whether a gravel sale is or is not exempt from tax based on two treaties
  • IRS issues promised guidance to attempt to block S corporation carried interest structure
  • Revised online Form W-4 calculator and Form W-4 issued to deal with TCJA changes

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Direct download: 2018-03-05_A_Bit_of_Disagreement.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:37am EDT

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