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Briefly Taxing’s Guide to the Income Tax Refund Process for Individuals

It was a Tuesday in 2016, if memory serves, when your mother called you to let you know about the unfortunate events that had beset your Mainer family the week prior. After some brief research (thanks, Google), you discovered that the tornado was the first to hit York County, Maine in nearly a decade, and it was the first major tornado since October 10, 1966.[1] If a tornado were going to hit Biddeford, somehow Uncle

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Scott St. Amand November 22, 2021
Income Tax Issues
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Partial Payments of Tax and Deposits with the IRS

Sunday afternoon rolls around, and the last thing on your mind was explaining the pros and cons of making partial payments of tax and deposits with the IRS to a relative who still sees “Charlie” lurking in his backyard from time to time. Nonetheless, of all of your relatives, Cousin Elmer is, surprisingly, the least offensive to you. You may remember that Elmer is currently working with only seven and a half fingers and a

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Scott St. Amand November 17, 2021
Business Related Issues
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A Primer on Employment Tax Withholding

When the IRS is involved, monetary transactions are never as simple as they appear on the surface. The late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg once told a story about being given a receipt after buying a doughnut. I bought a doughnut, and they gave me a receipt for the doughnut. I don’t need a receipt for the doughnut. I’ll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don’t need

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Scott St. Amand October 18, 2021
Business Related Issues
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Effect of the Build Back Better Act on Corporate and Partnership Taxation

On September 15, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to approve sweeping changes to the Internal Revenue Code through the Build Back Better Act, which proposals, if ultimately passed, will have a significant effect on the taxation of corporations and partnerships. We discussed the changes proposed to affect estate and gift taxation in an earlier article. In this article we explore the effect of the Build Back Better Act on corporate and partnership taxation.

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Scott St. Amand October 3, 2021
Estate Tax Issues
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Effects of the Build Back Better Act on Estates and Trusts

Examining the Effects of the Build Back Better Act on Estates and Trusts On September 13, 2021, the House Ways and Means Committee released the legislative text of proposed tax changes to be incorporated into the omnibus reconciliation bill known as the “Build Back Better Act.”  One wonders if the geniuses behind the BBBA intended the acronym to be pronounced as “Bubba,” but one thing is sure—having now read BBBA as “Bubba” you will never

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Scott St. Amand September 20, 2021
Procedural Issues
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Disqualification of an IRS Appeals Officer for Prior Involvement

Background to a Fair Collection Due Process Hearing In a previous Taxing, Briefly article, we discussed the IRS collection process including Collection Due Process (CDP) appeal procedures.  As we noted in that article, a CDP appeal is a taxpayer’s opportunity to dispute the appropriateness of a lien or levy.[1] In this post, we’ll discuss the disqualification of an IRS Appeals Officer for prior involvement in a collection due process hearing and the IRS’s vehement arguments

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Scott St. Amand September 17, 2021
Estate Tax Issues
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Valuing a Complex Legacy: Lessons in Valuation From Estate of Jackson

My second article, published in Bloomberg Tax is entitled “Valuing a Complex Legacy: Lessons in Valuation from Estate of Jackson.”  It was published in Bloomberg’s Estates, Gifts, and Trusts Journal (46 Tax Mgmt. Est. Gifts Tr. J. No 5 (Sept. 9, 2021)). The article was written in response to the inestimable Judge Mark Holmes’ opinion in Estate of Jackson v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2021-48, a 271 page leviathan of an opinion regarding the trials and tribulations in the

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Scott St. Amand September 9, 2021
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