Law and legal issues

A CPA from New York has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for filing a tax return in his own name that contained materially false information.

Hidden fees; Maxed out; inhuman services; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Parsing the results of Bloomberg Tax’s annual state tax survey.

The 26-year history of the case began as an audit procedure and evolved into a constitutional issue.

A Washington judge presiding over the president's attempt to block a House committee from getting tax records from his longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA LLP, said he’ll have enough information to issue a final ruling after a May 14 hearing.

Avalara highlights the higher profile of sales taxes and sales tax pros at its annual Crush conference.

Various EFINs; Mr. Plow; toothsome; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

In a decision underscoring the importance of maintaining corporate status with a state, the Tax Court dismissed the petition of a corporation because it was not timely filed by parties with the legal capacity to engage in litigation before the court.

Broker busted; bad habits; home of the braid; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Supreme Court's Wayfair decision has software vendors on their toes.

A Florida accountant lost his battle to prove his yacht charter business was operated for profit.

Aggravating factors; a big dig; steal of the Century; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A second court rejected claims the search-engine giant abused loopholes to avoid paying its fair share.

An ideologically divided U.S. Supreme Court gave businesses more power to channel disputes into individual arbitration proceedings, siding with a lighting retailer trying to prevent its employees from pressing group claims stemming from a phishing attack.

The president and the Trump Organization have asked a U.S. judge to reject a Congressional subpoena seeking business records from his longtime accounting firm Mazars USA LLP.

A federal appeals court reversed a district court’s judgment, holding that taxpayers could not rely on the common law mailbox rule to show that an amended return had been timely filed in order to claim a tax refund.

Two decades and tens of millions; bank error; dirty deal; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The justices questioned a state’s ability to tax income from a trust based on the beneficiaries residing there before taking any distributions.

There were fewer total settlements in 2018, but the dollar figures involved increased more than fivefold.

Argued a century ago, Eisner v. Macomber helped establish the treatment of dividends.