by Leif Jensen | Feb 19, 2024 | Tax Court |
I thought this case was amusing. A cat rescue group doesn’t qualify as a tax-exempt agricultural organization, per the IRS in a private ruling. The group was formed to house and rescue cats that come from an animal shelter. It also runs a cat café, in which it charges...
by Leif Jensen | Feb 14, 2024 | Tax Court |
Recovering attorney fees after beating the IRS in court isn’t the easiest of tasks. Taxpayers can recover their legal costs if they substantially prevail on the issues, unless the government shows that its litigation position was substantially justified. They also...
by Leif Jensen | Nov 6, 2023 | Tax Court |
A tax-saving rent scheme backfires on the three owners of an S corporation. Each man owned one-third of a firm that operated fitness center franchises. The S corp didn’t have a central office, but instead paid rent to each shareholder for use of their personal...
by Leif Jensen | Nov 1, 2023 | Tax Court |
A canceled debt of a single-member LLC is taxable COD income to its owner. A man wholly ,owned an LLC that was disregarded for federal tax purposes. The LLC borrowed money from a bank but didn’t repay it. Eight years later, the bank sent Form 1099-C to the LLC,...
by Leif Jensen | Oct 23, 2023 | Tax Court |
The courts do not determine when and how to tax staking rewards. Bad news for a man who was asking a court to rule on the taxation of staking rewards. A court tosses his case. He filed a refund claim alleging that token rewards he got from staking cryptocurrency are...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 6, 2023 | Tax Court |
The daughter convinced her parents that she needed funds for a fictitious legal battle. Being “good parents” and wanting to help her out, the couple withdrew $1.1 million in IRA and pension funds in 2017 and turned the money over to the evil daughter. They were taxed...
