Tax-related court cases

Now filling a cell; no EFIN, no problem; cleaning up but not filing; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Justice Department said Thursday it has entered into a settlement with Z Street, a nonprofit that educates the public about Israel and Middle East issues, after the group sued the Internal Revenue Service for holding up its application for tax-exempt status and subjecting it to extra scrutiny.

The widow of a country music producer who continued to operate, at a loss, an establishment to encourage songwriters was not able to deduct her losses in excess of her income from the activity.

Psychics gone bad; wrong numbers; cattle and veils; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Personal and professional; off he goes (to jail); charity case; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, a member of the cast of MTV’s reality series “Jersey Shore,” and his brother Marc Sorrentino, have pleaded guilty to federal tax charges.

The Supreme Court may be on the verge of tidying up an issue that has vexed states since the beginning of online sales—the attempt to collect tax on the sales by remote sellers into their states.

The service claimed it had six years to collect, but the three-year limit was upheld.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider freeing state and local governments to collect billions of dollars in sales taxes from online retailers, agreeing to revisit a 26-year-old ruling that has made much of the internet a tax-free zone.

Gone Postal; five down in fraud; ‘saves me a lot of taxes’; and other highlights of recent tax cases.