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Supreme Court Gives IRS Ability to Levy Taxpayers Without Tax Court Challenge

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In a pivotal ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 12, 2025, held that the U.S. Tax Court lacks jurisdiction to hear a taxpayer’s Collection Due Process appeal under IRC § 6330 once the IRS can no longer pursue a levy,...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

YA Global Brings its Fight to the Appellate Level

On April 28, YA Global Investments, LP (“YA Global”) filed an appeal in the 3rd Circuit, contesting the Tax Court’s decision in YA Global Investments, LP v. Commissioner. In YA Global Investments, the court found that YA...more

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YA Global Heads to Appeals Court Over Tax Court Ruling on Offshore Fund’s U.S. Activities

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Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Last month, YA Global Investments, LP (the “Fund”) filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, seeking review of the...more

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Is the Chief of IRS Appeals Constitutionally Appointed?

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The United States Tax Court skillfully dodged answering the headline question with a holding on standing. The court decided, however, that IRS appeals officers and IRS appeals team managers are not officers of the United...more

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Final Regulations on IRS Appeals Issued

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In 2019, Congress introduced Internal Revenue Code Section 7803(e) that codified the IRS Independent Office of Appeals (Appeals) as an administrative avenue for resolving disputes without going to court, focusing on...more

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The Taxpayer Bill of Rights - 10 Essential Rights for U.S. Taxpayers

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Are you aware of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights?  We are reminded, especially during tax season, that taxpayers have 10 essential rights when dealing with the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS expects its employees to understand...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Deadline for CT Real Property Tax Assessment Appeals is Feb. 20

Property owners who wish to challenge their tax assessment believing that their property is overvalued on the Oct. 1, 2024, Grand List only have a couple of weeks left to file a written appeal with the Board of Assessment...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Challenge to Collection Due Process? Will Supreme Court Affirm IRS’s Offset of Valid Refund With Disputed Tax Liability?

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Earlier this year the IRS announced that, as part of its larger compliance efforts begun last fall under the Inflation Reduction Act, the agency’s stepped-up enforcement activity with respect to high wealth, high income...more

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Burlington: Good News for the Secondary Debt Market

In HMRC v Burlington Loan Management DAC [2024] UKUT 152 (TCC) (“Burlington”) the Upper Tribunal (“UT”) dismissed HMRC’s appeal, holding that the First-tier Tribunal (“FTT”) was right to conclude that the anti-abuse provision...more

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Complex Borrowing and Group Structures

The Court of Appeal’s (“CA”) ruling in April 2024 in the case of BlackRock Holdco 5 LLC v HMRC (“BlackRock”) considered the deductibility of interest on a $4 billion intra-group loan put in place as part of the funding...more

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IRS Cannot Offset Taxpayer’s Refund With A Disputed Tax Liability

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Imagine the IRS notifies Taxpayer that they have an outstanding tax liability with respect to Tax Year, and that the agency intends to levy on Taxpayer’s property to collect the allegedly unpaid tax. Taxpayer challenges the...more

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Liberty Global to Appeal Its Foreign Tax Credit Tax Court Loss

Liberty Global has announced that it will challenge the November 2023 Tax Court finding that the company had incorrectly boosted its foreign tax credits by failing to account for gains that exceeded the total foreign loss on...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Pre-Closing Special Dividends: Distributions or Sales Proceeds?

A recent pair of decisions by the California Office of Tax Appeals examined the tax treatment of special dividends paid in connection with the acquisition of a corporate target. Private company acquisitions are...more

Freeman Law

Tax Court in Brief | Lipka v. Comm’r | Collection Alternatives, Economic Hardship, and Abuse of Discretion

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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....more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Raising New Arguments and Issues in Tax Litigation

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Due to the complexity of Canadian tax law, it is not uncommon for taxpayers and the minister of national revenue to refine their respective positions and identify new arguments and issues in the course of the tax dispute...more

Gray Reed

Going to Appeals – Preparing the Protest

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Overview of the Appeals Process - The goal of the Appeals Office is to settle as many cases as possible within the broad guidelines of its Mission Statement...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with the IRS: The IRS Appeals Office

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This video is the second in a four-part series on Jones Day's approach to dealing with the IRS. In it, partner Chuck Hodges discusses stage two – the IRS Office of Appeals. He describes the office as having one mission – to...more

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