Federal Tax Update Podcast

This week we look at the following items:

• Wall Street Journal reports IRS will issue guidance allowing 50% deduction for business meals

• IRS issues guidance on credit for paying employees on FMLA leave

• Moving expenses incurred in 2017 but reimbursed in 2018 ruled to be excludable from the employee’s income

• Special per diem rules, including high/low amounts, updated by the IRS

• IRS agent found to qualify as an innocent spouse when given what turned out to be a misleading response by soon to be ex-spouse

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This week we look at the following items:

• Tax Court allows a taxpayer to try and prove reasonable reliance on indirect legal advice

• Updated safe harbor explanations for plan distributions issued by IRS

• IRS delays major revision to Form W-4 to 2020

• Relief announced for victims of Hurricane Florence

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This week we look at the following items:

• South Dakota enacts remote seller law to implement Wayfair decision beginning November 30

• Colorado tests the limits of Justice Kennedy’s holdings in Wayfair

• Even though records were imperfect, Tax Court finds the taxpayer was a real estate professional

• Opportunity Zone regulations at OMB, expected out around the end of the month

• IRS rules math error procedures can be used even after refunds are issued

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This week we look at the following items:

• South Dakota to hold a special session so the state can begin to take advantage of their victory in the Wayfair case
• Taxpayer who withdrew IRA funds based on a notice of intent to levy cannot escape 10% additional tax
• IRS clarifies the application of the proposed SALT regulations leading to a bevy of questions
• IRS memorandum concludes seismic fees for offshore drilling must be amortized and cannot be treated as intangible drilling costs
• President issues an Executive Order for DOL and Treasury to consider certain changes to retirement plans
• Tax Court disagrees with the IRS’s view on how §1291(c) gains interact with six year statute

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