The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee held a June 29 markup of the fiscal year (FY) 2018 government appropriations bill that was released by the full committee in draft form the day before. The federal government budget bill, approved by voice vote in subcommittee, proposes reducing IRS funding by $149 million from […]

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A self-described analyst of financial institutions, who learned of a corporate taxpayer’s claimed tax abuse from publicly available sources, was not entitled to proceed with his whistleblower case anonymously. The individual failed to make a sufficient fact-specific case for anonymity. Unlike whistleblower claimants who were granted anonymity, the individual did not make a plausible claim […]

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National Taxpayer Advocate, Nina E. Olson, has released her midyear report to Congress. The report contains a review of the 2017 Filing Season, identifies the priority issues the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) will address during the upcoming fiscal year, and contains the IRS’s responses to each of the 93 administrative recommendations the Advocate made in […]

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President Trump discussed the Senate Republicans’ healthcare overhaul initiative during a June 28 meeting at the White House with tribal leaders on energy. Trump met with 50 Republican senators at the White House on June 27 (TAXDAY, 2017/06/28, C.1). “Yesterday, we had a tremendous meeting with Republican senators on health care. The meeting went really […]

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A petition for review was granted in the following case: C.J. Marinello, II, CA-2, 2016-2 ustc ¶50,453 —An individual who owned and operated a freight service that transported items to and from the United States and Canada was properly convicted and sentenced for corruptly obstructing the administration of the tax laws. The government was not […]

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Senate Republican Leadership on June 27 decided to delay bringing the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 to the Senate floor after originally planning for a vote this week (TAXDAY, 2017/06/27, C.1). The measure proposes to repeal and replace, in part, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (P.L. 111-148) and related taxes (TAXDAY, […]

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