Tax-related court cases

Almost made 100; O Canada; check's not in the mail; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

An accountant with Mazars USA who prepared the former president's tax returns for years was the first defense witness in the tax fraud trial of two Trump companies.

The court's terse two-sentence order, letting a House committee get six years of Trump's tax returns, marked the fourth time the justices have rejected him over documents since he left office.

The House Ways and Means Committee had been racing the calendar to obtain the records before Republicans assume control of the House in January.

Taxpayers can no longer get away with 'substantial compliance' — they need to have their 'contemporaneous written acknowledgements' in order.

The criminal tax fraud case against a pair of Trump Organization companies playing out in a Manhattan courtroom this month went all the way to trial because of one man: Donald Trump.

The Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, testified that greed fueled a scheme he says he engaged in with the firm's controller and the two Trump companies standing trial.

Cleanup in aisle four; have con, will travel; out of fashion; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Allen Weisselberg told the jury that soon after he pleaded guilty, the firm booted him off the prestige floor on which Donald Trump worked.

Donald Trump himself was aware of allegedly abusive tax practices at his company, testimony at the criminal fraud trial of two Trump Organization business units suggested.