In Kroner v. Commissioner, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 25650 (11th Cir. Sept. 13, 2022), the court reversed a U.S. Tax Court decision to hold that the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) did not violate section 6751(b) of the Internal Revenue Code when it obtained supervisory approval prior to the assessment of a tax penalty, even though…
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Reinvestment of Tax Shelter Proceeds Is Not a Valid “Business Purpose”
The Eleventh Circuit last week decided a tax case exploring the appropriate scope of factual review for the economic substance and business purpose doctrines. Curtis Investment Co. v. Commissioner, 2018 WL 6380325 (11th Cir. Dec. 6, 2018). These two doctrines allow courts and the IRS to make a substance-over-form review of suspected tax avoidance activities….