Tax-related court cases

Businessman Lev Dermen, 53, was found guilty Monday as part of a scheme to cheat the IRS out of $512 million through a program designed to promote clean fuels.

No kidding; Time’s up; jailbird; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Papers trail; House of cards; trickle down; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Spook central; short of a grand; a low bar; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Supreme Court vacated and remanded Tuesday an appeals court decision that found under federal common law, a tax refund due from a joint tax return generally belongs to the company responsible for the losses that form the basis of the refund, rejecting a nearly half-century-old precedent.

The justices let stand an appeals ruling that precluded a tax refund to movie producers, deferring to an IRS regulation that ended the common-law mailbox rule for refund claims, even though Clarence Thomas reversed his position on an earlier case.

EZ out; Totaled; to the cooler; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

They’re still valuable, but require stricter attention to the rules than ever.

Taxpayers prevailed in only 23 out of 55 (41.8 percent) of the significant tax cases involving state and local taxes in the fourth quarter of 2019, and for the entire year only 83 out of 218 (38.1 percent) of the significant tax cases in 2019, according to a recent analysis.

Numbers game; we have a loser; scrapped; and other highlights of recent tax cases.