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IRS begins enforcing new return preparer rules
The Internal Revenue Service is taking steps to stop tax preparers with criminal tax convictions or permanent injunctions from preparing tax returns. More than 700,000 tax preparers nationwide have registered ...
AG warns about tax-related ‘phishing’ emails
As the April 18 tax deadline approaches, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is asking taxpayers to notify his office of any unsolicited email messages disguised as official communications from the Internal Revenue Service or tax preparation companies ...
IRS issues guidance on health care law
The Internal Revenue Service recently issued guidance on a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that requires employers to report the cost of health coverage on employees’ W-2 forms. The requirement is informational only ...
Suspicious powder at IRS office is baking soda
HOLTSVILLE — Nearly 60 workers at an Internal Revenue Service office on eastern Long Island were briefly evacuated after an employee opened an envelope containing a suspicious powder. An IRS spokeswoman says the substance was later determined to be baking soda.
Dem, GOP lawmakers vow to spare millions from AMT
WASHINGTON — Bipartisan leaders in Congress are vowing to spare more than 21 million taxpayers from significant tax increases when they file their returns next spring by adjusting the alternative minimum tax before the end of the year.
Empire Justice Center receives federal grant
The Internal Revenue Service announced the award of more than $11 million in matching grants to support its Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The Empire Justice Center will receive $110,000.
IRS plans to step up tax evader enforcement
The IRS is expanding its list of targets and implementing new filing requirements as part of an effort to nab more tax evaders. William P. Marshall, director of examination for the IRS’s North Atlantic area ...
New conundrum: Donations and gift boxes
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donors to nonprofit groups that are spending millions on political ads this election have escaped public scrutiny because their donations don’t have to be disclosed. But can they escape a hefty a tax bite?
IRS warns against frivolous claims
Outrageous claims? The Internal Revenue Service has heard them all. From the taxpayer who claims she is not a “person” as defined by the IRS and therefore not subject to federal income tax laws ...
Keeping Your Balance: How the IRS views Form 990-T losses
The IRS is taking a closer look at tax exempt organizations that engage in unrelated business activity and, rather than reporting taxable income instead report large loss carryforwards.
IRS to end release of taxpayer debt information
NEW YORK CITY — The IRS said Thursday it will end its policy of releasing information about back taxes and other debts owed by taxpayers in the coming tax season. The information, called debt indicators ...
Keeping Your Balance: IRS scrutinizes Form 990-T and losses
The IRS is taking a close look at tax exempt organizations that engage in unrelated business activity but rather than reporting taxable income instead report large loss carryforwards.
Case Digests
- Fourth Department – Breach of contract: Hausrath Landscape Maintenance Inc. v. Caravan Facilities Management LLC
- Second Circuit – New York Child Victim’s Act: Kane v. Mount Pleasant CSD; Coe v. Eastport Union Free School
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Appointing law clerk: Opinion 22-149
- Fourth Department – Bill of particulars: Harris v. Rome Memorial Hospital, et al.
- NYS Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics – Accusations against co-judge: Opinion 22-148
- Fourth Department – Medicaid: Washington Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Home v. NYS Dept. of Health
- Fourth Department – Criminal possession of a firearm: People v. Wilson
- Fourth Department – Promoting prostitution: People v. Watts
- Second Circuit – Class certification: Arkansas Teachers Retirement System V. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
- Fourth Department – Show-up identification: People v. Waggoner
- Fourth Department – Association: Victory Village Tenants Assoc. v. Evergreen Communities, et al.
- Second Circuit – In personam jurisdiction: Kaplan v. Bank Saderat PLC
Law News
- Greenlight Networks selects Buffalo-based attorney as general counsel
- Barclay Damon hires attorney Matt Smith
- Rochester man sues Geneseo police, alleging false arrest, assault
- The Daily Record’s Power List for Intellectual Property 2023
- NY ethics panel says judges can join NRA
- Harter Secrest & Emery LLP names partner-in-charge of Buffalo office
- Banned professor sues SUNY Fredonia leaders
- Hochul signs law requiring unemployment insurance information from employers
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