Tax-related court cases

TNT blows up; HUD time; an $18 million employment tax scheme; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Internal Revenue Service has decided to limit its probe of Coinbase users to those who engaged in transactions of $20,000 or more, according to a court filing.

Bogus wages; ‘permission’ revoked; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Just because you have years of experience in an activity and have made an occasional profit at it doesn’t mean you have a profit motive, according to the Tax Court. And without a profit motive, you don’t get to deduct losses from the activity.

A surprise ruling in an ERISA case reverses earlier courts.

A repeat offender gambles, then loses; targeting the homeless; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Tax Court has ruled that the owners of the Boston Bruins professional hockey team may deduct the entire cost of away game pregame meals as a de minimis fringe benefit.

Stolen names and SSNs; ‘substantial’ fees in a $1.1 million scheme; Canadian conspiracy; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The Tax Court rules that a corporation doesn’t qualify as an ‘individual’ when it comes to tax troubles.

Bogus gifts, job expenses; ‘varying fees’ for fraud; Crazy skin game; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Google should be let off the hook from a 1.12 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) tax recovery order in France even though fiscal authorities in the country are seeking to recoup that amount, according to an adviser at the Paris administrative court.

A recent ruling by the Tax Court might help soften the blow to employers confronted with income tax liability for workers that have been reclassified as employees.

A recent Tax Court opinion favored a Los Angeles County tax assessor’s valuation of rental property improvements over the property owner’s own appraisal.

Cigars and nose jobs; ‘training’ to manipulate numbers; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

Deep trouble for Deepwater scam; $6K in false HSH income; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The ruling rejects the ‘software defense’ for deduction errors.

More than $1 million bilked in state taxes; dead wrongs; life goes on (trial); and other highlights of recent tax cases.

A federal court in Minneapolis has found Wells Fargo liable for a 20 percent negligence penalty for participating in a tax shelter sold by Barclays Bank that generated $350 million in foreign tax credits.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question a Michigan tax change that companies including IBM Corp. and Procter & Gamble Co. say will hit them retroactively with a $1 billion bill.

The Tax Court decided in favor of the Internal Revenue Service in a case involving a tax return in which a couple filed jointly, but one of the spouses was battling mental illness and didn't sign the return.