Tax

Filing taxes last year was a nightmare for taxpayers, their accountants and the Internal Revenue Service. This year might not be much better.

A little off the top; noted; over the Edge; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The year 2019 was a continuation of the banner year of 2018 for major law and administrative changes in sales and use tax compliance, inspired and driven in large part by the Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v Wayfair.

The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are offering a safe harbor to provide relief to taxpayers who borrowed money to attend a nonprofit or for-profit school and had their student loan debts discharged.

Vladimir Putin is putting his trust in an obscure technocrat with little political experience to be prime minister and revive Russia’s flagging economy, as he prepares the country for the most significant constitutional overhaul in a generation.

A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.

The Taxpayer First Act protects a broad range of disclosures about potential violations of IRS rules or tax fraud.

House Democrats’ lawsuit seeking President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns was put on hold as a judge said he’s waiting for a higher court’s ruling in a separate case on whether Congress can make ex-White House counsel Don McGahn testify.

The White House continues to work on a tax-cut plan in hope that Republican lawmakers will be in control of Congress after the 2020 elections, President Donald Trump’s top economic aide Larry Kudlow said.

Tracking refunds; an extra deadline; the Advocate’s report; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.