TAXLITIGATOR – Tax Controversy (Civil & Criminal) Report

Sandra R. Brown was quoted in a May 6, 2024 Tax Notes Article on What the IRS’s 2024 ‘Dirty Dozen’ List Tells Us About Tax Administration, authored by Kathy A. Enstrom, Moore Tax Law Group, LLC. 

The IRS annually releases its “Dirty Dozen” list to warn taxpayers and tax practitioner alike of various tax scams as well abusive transactions that the Service will be focused on in the coming year. While many topics on the annual list are “repeat offenders”, there is always something new to be aware of. One might say that, akin to the anticipation of learning who will be drafted in the first round of the annual draft for your favorite professional sport, tax professionals as well as non-tax professionals look forward each year to the IRS’s release of its “Dirty Dozen” list. As noted by Sandra ….

“. . .The value of what can fairly be described as an IRS ‘tradition’ in releasing the ‘Dirty Dozen’ couldn’t be any clearer than a simple internet search,”

“You’ll get almost a million hits in less than .34 seconds showing that beyond the expected accounting firms and tax professionals, there are banks, credit unions, insurance advisers, universities, software companies, state taxing authorities, news publications, and the list goes on, of those posting the IRS’s Dirty Dozen list.”

For an in-depth review of what the Dirty Dozen list tells us about tax administration, what types of scams the IRS is advising taxpayers to be on the alert and diligent in protecting themselves and their personal financial information as well as tax avoidance strategies that the IRS has been challenging and will continue to scrutinize, please check out Kathy’s article, visit https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/dirty-dozen, or contact an experience tax professional.