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Tax Bytes: Week of July 14, 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of Tax Bytes. Our team of tax lawyers is actively monitoring for federal and international tax developments and issues of note. Each week we pull together the items we deem most important to...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard – Quarter 1, 2025

This is the first edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2025. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of what we deem to be significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. Our entire SALT...more

Akerman LLP - SALT Insights

It’s None of My Business! Arkansas Court Rules on Business v. Non-Business Income Distinction

Income received by a multistate business is either “business income” or “non-business income.” Although this labeling appears innocuous, the distinction between these two categories of income matters greatly to taxpayers and...more

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New Jersey Tax Court Approves Use of Market-Based Sourcing for Years Prior to Legislature’s Adoption of Market-Based Sourcing

The New Jersey Tax Court held that a taxpayer was entitled to a refund of corporation business tax (CBT) for tax years 2011 and 2012 after determining the taxpayer correctly used a market-based sourcing methodology to source...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

SALT Scoreboard - Quarter 1, 2024

This is the first edition of the Eversheds Sutherland SALT Scoreboard for 2024. Since 2016, we have tallied the results of what we deem to be significant taxpayer wins and losses and analyzed those results. Our entire SALT...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Intercompany Loan Treated As Constructive Distribution and Contribution

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Heads I Win, . . . - When closely held corporations that are under common control engage in any intercompany transaction, it is prudent for the corporations and their shareholders to ensure that the transaction is being...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Limited Partners’ Tax Savings from Self-Employment Taxes are under Scrutiny

Hedge funds and private equity groups have long used the “limited partner exception” to minimize self-employment taxes, but on March 13, 2018, the IRS announced that it was going to increase its scrutiny on taxpayers...more

Freeman Law

Tax Court in Brief | Kechijian v. Comm’r | Innocent Spouse Relief, Res Judicata, and “Meaningful Participation” Exception of...

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Short Summary: Petitioner Susan Kechijian sought the Tax Court’s review, under section 6015(e), of the denial by the IRS of her request for innocent spouse relief from joint and several liability for a federal income tax...more

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Business Expenses Paid by Shareholder, But Whose Deduction Is It?

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Constructive Transfers- It is axiomatic that the tax treatment of interactions between a closely held business and its owners will generally be subject to heightened scrutiny by the IRS, and that the labels attached to such...more

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Tax Court in Brief | Eze v. Commissioner | Schedules C and C2 Business Expense Deductions of a Sole Proprietorship

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Tax Litigation: The Week of August 1st, 2022, through August 5th, 2022 Whistleblower 769-16W v. Comm’r, 159 T.C. No. 2 | August 4, 2022 | Toro, J. | Dkt. No. 769-16W ...more

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Tax Court in Brief | Ziroli v. Commissioner | Is a Disgorgement Payment a Deductible Business Expense under Section 162?

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Tax Litigation: The Week of July 11th, 2022, through July 15th, 2022 Estate of DeMuth, v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-72 | July 12, 2022 | Jones, J. | Dkt. No. 18724-19 Whistleblower 972-17W v. Comm’r, 159 T.C. No. 1 | July 13,...more

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Tax Court in Brief | Walters v. Comm’r | Deductibility of “For Profit” Business Expenses

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Tax Litigation: The Week of March 7, 2022, through March 11, 2022 Hacker v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-16 | March 8, 2022 | Paris, J. | Dkt. No. 3870-12 Cosio v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-18 | March 9, 2022 | Weiler, J. | Dkt....more

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Tax Court in Brief | Rau v. Comm’r | Business Expense and Non-cash Charitable Contribution Deductions

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Tax Litigation: The Week of March 7, 2022, through March 11, 2022 Hacker v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-16 | March 8, 2022 | Paris, J. | Dkt. No. 3870-12 Cosio v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-18 | March 9, 2022 | Weiler, J. | Dkt....more

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Tax Court in Brief | Sherwin Community Painters Inc. v. Comm’r | Business Expenses and Constructive Dividends

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Tax Litigation: The Week of March 7, 2022, through March 11, 2022 Hacker v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-16 | March 8, 2022 | Paris, J. | Dkt. No. 3870-12 Rau v. Comm’r, T.C. Opin. 2022-4 | March 7, 2022 | Guy, J. | Dkt. No....more

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Tax Court in Brief – Sonntag v. Commissioner

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The Tax Court in Brief February 14 – February 18, 2022 - Freeman Law’s “The Tax Court in Brief” covers every substantive Tax Court opinion, providing a weekly brief of its decisions in clear, concise prose....more

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The Tax Court in Brief - December 2021 #3

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Tax Litigation: The Week of December 19 – December 25, 2021 - William R. Huff and Cathy Markey Huff, v. Comm’r, T.C. Memorandum 2021-140| December 21, 2021 | Urda, J. | Dkt. No. 22604-17. Short Summary:  The main issue...more

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The Tax Court in Brief - September 2021 #3

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Tax Court Litigation: The Week of September 13 – September 17, 2021 - Donna M. Sutherland v. Comm’r, No. 3634-18, T.C. Memo 2021-110 | September 16, 2021 | Lauber | Dkt. No. 3634-18 - Short Summary: This is an...more

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The Tax Court in Brief - August 2021 #5

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Tax Litigation: The Week of August 23 – August 27, 2021 - Tax Court Case: Estate of Charles P. Morgan, Deceased, Roxanna L. Morgan, Personal Representative and Roxanna L. Morgan v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo 2021-104 | August 23,...more

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The Tax Court in Brief - August 2021 #3

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Freeman Law’s “The Tax Court in Brief” covers every substantive Tax Court opinion, providing a weekly brief of its decisions in clear, concise prose. The Week of August 9 – August 13, 2021 - Manuelito B. Rodriguez &...more

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Me Too Defeats You Too in Tax Court

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The Me Too movement of the last few years and recent worldwide protests sparked by George Floyd's killing have focused welcome attention on combatting gender and racial discrimination and harassment. A recent Tax Court of...more

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Last Minute IRS And Tax Court Deadline Update

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The IRS has issued a new notice answering outstanding questions about previous filing and payment deadline extension notices and adding to the list of forms and payments covered by the extension until July 15, 2020. Notice...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Weekly IRS Roundup March 16 – 20, 2020

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of March 16 – 20, 2020. March 17, 2020: The IRS published Rev. Rul. 2020-9 to provide various...more

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Tax Court Strikes a Blow to Medical Marijuana Industry, Although Dissents Offer Some Hope

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As more and more states are allowing legal use of marijuana, medical marijuana businesses are faced with large tax bills because of marijuana’s continued classification as a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law. ...more

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Recent Case Sheds Light on When a Trade or Business Begins

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A recent Tax Court summary opinion, Smith v. Commissioner, T.C. Summ. Op. 2019-12, sheds light on when a business becomes an active trade or business for purposes of the deduction for “start-up expenditures” available under...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

NJ Tax Court Orders Full Unreasonable Exception to Royalty Addback

The New Jersey Tax Court held yesterday, February 27, 2019, in a precedential published opinion that a royalty payor was not required to add back any portion of the royalties that it paid to a related licensor under the...more

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