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Rettig speaks; FASB on crypto; going public; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Alexandru Bittner v. United States is about some of the tax and compliance rules the U.S. slaps on its own expatriates.

Lower courts have disagreed whether non-willful failure-to-disclose penalties are on per-account or a per-form basis.

The court agreed to decide how steep the penalties are for people who fail to file required reports with the federal government listing their foreign bank accounts.

The unanimous decision overturned a Tax Court refusal to hear a taxpayer’s challenge to an IRS assessment that came one day late.

The Supreme Court declined to review a New York-led constitutional challenge to the $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions imposed by Congress in the 2017 tax law.

A district court has vacated IRS Notice 2016-66, which designated micro-captive insurance arrangements as “transactions of interest,” and thus reportable.

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are asking a federal judge to block the release of his tax returns to Congress, saying Democrats’ pursuit of the documents amounts to political retaliation.

The justices declined to hear a case from a group of Colorado dispensaries challenging the service's ability to investigate them.

Taxpayers won't be able to recover previously paid Medicare taxes and NIIT.