Download or read book Tax Obstruction Crimes written by John A. Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the online appendix to Townsend, John A., Tax Obstruction Crimes: Is Making the IRS's Job Harder Enough (July 1, 2009). Houston Business and Tax Law Journal, Vol. 9, No. 255, 2009. Available at SSRN: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061018' https://ssrn.com/abstract=2061018The article for this appendix questions the potential mischief that can arise from the notion that conduct which makes the IRS's job harder is an obstruction type crime under the defraud / Klein conspiracy in 18 U.S.C. § 371 or, its tax code counterpart for the single actor, 26 U.S.C. § 7212(a) (the Omnibus Clause). The Appendix goes through some common audit profile lowering examples which might be characterized as making the IRS's job harder. Examples considered are:Example 1: Choosing the Standard Deduction When Itemized Deductions Are LargerExample 2: Claiming Fewer Deductions than Otherwise AvailableExample 3: Variation: Claiming Fewer Charitable DeductionsExample 4: Making the Amount of Charitable Deductions Based on Audit FactorsExample 5: Conforming Deductions to IRS Audit Models.Example 6: Follow the Forms StrategyExample 7: Planning Return Positions Based on the Taxpayer Civil Penalty RulesExample 8: Same Example with Preparer Penalty Rules in PlayExample 9: Failure to Disclose Where Even a Civil Penalty Would Not ApplyExample 10: Drafting Return Disclosure to Lower the Audit ProfileExample 11: Filing a Paper Return to Exploit IRS InefficienciesExample 12: IncorporatingExample 13: Filing a Return on ExtensionExample 14: Filing a Return That Incorrectly States the Economic Position of the TaxpayerExample 15: Resisting in an AuditExample 16: Noncompliance with SummonsExample 17: Noncompliance with Summons (Part 2)Example 18: Variation on Resisting an AuditExample 19: Structuring Transactions for less Visibility on AuditExample 20: Action to Delay via U.S. BankExample 21: Action to Delay via Foreign BankExample 22: Taking a Deduction as Schedule C Rather than Schedule AExample 23: Taking an Nol Carryover to a Later YearExample 24: Declining to Amend a Tax ReturnExample 25: Manipulating the SystemExample 26: Staging a Voluntary Disclosure.

Download or read book IRS Obstruction written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Obstructing by Omission written by Kathryn Booth and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A majority of circuits hold that it is possible to be convicted of corruptly obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue laws even if there is no pending IRS proceeding to obstruct. Even more strikingly, the Second Circuit recently held that making an omission is sufficient to obstruct the IRS, which means that it is a federal felony to corruptly not maintain records or to corruptly not provide records to an accountant. Despite the obvious potential problems with these issues, there is very little recent scholarship addressing them. In June, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider these issues. This article examines the circuit split over whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(a), interfering with the administration of the Internal Revenue laws, requires that the defendant obstructed a known IRS proceeding. Only the Sixth Circuit has imposed such a requirement, and even that court has twice reversed itself on the issue. Further, the Department of Justice limits charges under § 7212(a) to conduct that is prototypically “obstructive.” These policy limitations have caused only prototypically obstructive cases to reach the courts, and have therefore ensured that constitutional overbreadth challenges to the statute necessarily fail. Notwithstanding the majority of opinions on the issue, this article explains that the logical reading of § 7212(a) requires that, to obstruct the IRS, the defendant must have been aware of a pending IRS proceeding. Without this requirement, other crimes carefully delineated in the federal tax code would become superfluous, and individuals would be subject to a vast new array of previously uncontemplated criminal tax prosecutions. Moreover, this limitation is consistent with the Supreme Court's interpretation of the nearly-identical general obstruction of justice statute. Unless § 7212(a) is limited to conduct that obstructs a pending IRS action, the statute will be unconstitutionally overbroad.

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Download or read book Obstruction of Justice written by MR Bruce Bronstein and published by Bruce Bronstein. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tax Court judge with a personal vendetta against the Internal Revenue Service has ruled against the IRS in a succession of trials which the tax agency should have easily won. A pattern of bizarre behavior continues that is baffling to tax practitioners and IRS personnel. Frustrated with a federal judge serving a fifteen year term on the bench, the IRS decides to take whatever action necessary to have the judge removed. However, before impeachment proceedings commence, the judge will make startling rulings that further bewilder courtroom observers. This will eventually lead to a stunning conclusion cloaked in the ultimate irony. At the same time, a number of criminals behind bars are obtaining millions of dollars from the IRS by filing fraudulent tax returns. To deal with this problem, the tax agency turns to intrepid agent Louie Lipschitz once again. But can Louie act in time to save the IRS from going broke?

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Download or read book Obstruction of Justice written by Luke Rosiak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak is being hailed as “one of the smartest, most diligent reporters in Washington” (TUCKER CARLSON) and “a bulldog” (DANA LOESCH) for uncovering “what is possibly the largest scandal and coverup in the history of the United States House of Representatives” (NEWT GINGRICH). It’s like something out of a spy novel: In the heat of the 2016 election, an unvetted Pakistani national with a proclivity for blackmail gained access to the computer files of one in five Democrats in the House of Representatives. He and his family lifted data off the House network, stole the identity of an intelligence specialist, and sent congressional electronic equipment to foreign officials. And that was only the beginning. Rather than protect national security, Congress and the Justice Department schemed to cover up a politically inconvenient hack and an underlying fraud on Capitol Hill involving dozens of Democrats' offices. Evidence disappeared, witnesses were threatened, and the supposed watchdogs in the media turned a blind eye. Combining tenacious investigative reporting and high-tech investigative techniques, Luke Rosiak began ferreting out the truth, and found himself face to face with the "Deep State," observing how Nancy Pelosi's Democrats manipulated the Department of Justice, the media, and even Republican leadership to sabotage the investigation into what Newt Gingrich calls possibly the biggest congressional scandal in history.

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Download or read book Unbridled Power written by Shelley L. Davis and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the secret culture of the IRS.

Download or read book Tax This written by Scott M. Estill and published by Bellingham, WA ; North Vancouver, BC : Self-Counsel Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Year, the IRS issues more than 34 million penalty notices to individuals and small businesses. What you may not know is that many of these notices are wrong. If you receive one, you may not have to pay it. You also don't have to hire an expensive tax professional in order to challenge these penalties and stand up to the IRS.

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