There are times when IRS employees violate the law. This includes intentional and negligent conduct that violates the law. Many of these violations go unreported. This is often for fear of retaliation or lack of resources. It may also be due to a belief that there is no remedy for taxpayers in this situation. The……
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The IRS’s Ability to Recoup Refund Checks
If you receive a tax refund and the IRS later asks you to repay the refund, what do you do? Do you keep the refund or repay it? This can be a very difficult question to answer. This is particularly true if you believe that you have a legitimate basis for and entitlement to the……
Tax Court Puffery: Exaggeration is Not Evidence
Every communication makes statements. The statements may be truthful or false. A statement that is misleading or exaggerated is somewhere between these two. There can be significant legal consequences depending on where a statement falls on this continuum. This raises questions as to how precise do the statements have to be to be false? If……