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IRS Revised Rules for Streamlined Installment Agreements The IRS recently relaxed its rules for payment of smaller tax liabilities. The revised procedures now allow taxpayers up to 72 months to pay their tax obligations. The new procedures also increase the maximum amount subject to the relaxed streamlined agreements from $25,000 to $50,000. You may request a monthly installment plan by submitting Form 9465-FS to if your liability is greater than $25 ... IRS Audit Red Flags: The Dirty Dozen Although there's no sure way to avoid being audited, your chances increase depending upon various factors. IRS Lowers the Bar for Innocent Spouse Relief The filing of a joint income tax return has the legal effect of an irrevocable election by each spouse to be jointly and severally liable for tax reported, or properly reportable, on the return. In other words, each spouse can be held liable for the full amount of the tax, though the IRS can collect ... IRS Lowers Bar for Innocent Spouse Relief The filing of a joint income tax return has the legal effect of an irrevocable election by each spouse to be jointly and severally liable for tax reported, or properly reportable, on the return. In other words, each spouse can be held liable for the full amount of the tax, though the IRS can collect the tax only once. IRS Eases Up on Abuse Victims It is a real tragedy that someone can escape an abusive marriage, only to find themselves being pursued by the IRS for the abuser's tax debts.  How does it happen ? Filing a joint return will usually result in a married couple having a lower federal tax than the total of two married filing separate returns (The total of the two returns as single might be even lower, but that is not an option if ... IRS Should End Commodity Mutual-Fund Runaround, Levin Says U.S. tax authorities should stop a private rulemaking process that has encouraged speculation in oil and agricultural markets by letting mutual funds exceed limits on commodity investments, Senator Carl Levin said. IRS Free File available now IRS Free File, which has been making taxes a little less taxing for a decade is available now. More than 33 million returns have been filed through Free File since its debut. Good and Better IRS News For Abuse Victims It is a real tragedy that??someone can escape an abusive marriage, only to find themselves being pursued by the IRS for the abuser?s tax debts.?? How does it happen ? Filing a joint return will usually result in a married couple having a lower federal tax than the total of two??married filing separate returns (The ... IRS To Collect on Italian Cruise Ship Settlements One night during dinner, your cruise ship crashes into a reef. Amid the pandemonium you must climb into a lifeboat leaving all your possessions, passport, money???even your high-heeled shoes. Then the cruise line offers you $14,000 to settle. If you take it, is it taxable? The Costa unit of Cruises is offering uninjured passengers ???11,000 ... IRS Wins $62M GE Tax Shelter Case You would expect a tax shelter designed to save $62 million in taxes to be complicated.?? You would be right. The Second Circuit upheld a ruling against General Electric?s financing arm that charged the conglomerate with understating its income. See??TIFD III-E Inc. v. United States. The court said the IRS was right and IRS penalties ...
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