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Số Quyết định Vấn đề Ngày Phát Hành
Số 1999-09 Quyết định IRS v. Waldschmidt (In re Bradley), (M.D. Tenn. 1999). Vấn đề This Action on Decision reflects the Service's acquiescence in the Court's interpretation of amended setion 121 in light of section 1398 and declining to follow Mehr and Barden, held that a bankruptcy estate steps into the debtor's shoes for purposes of section 121. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-08 Quyết định Hospital Corp. of America and Subsidiaries v. Comm, 109 T.C. 21. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's acquiescence in the Court's conclusion, to the extent, that the Tax Court held that the term "tangible personal property," as defined under a pre-1981 ITC analysis, has continued viability under ACRS and MACRS. The issue as to whether the various disputed items are structural components or tangible personal property is a factual question. We do not agree with the court's determination with respect to the various disputed properties. We cannot Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-07 Quyết định Vulcan Materials Commpany and Subsidiaries v. Comm. Vấn đề Reflects the findings of the Tax Court that the statutory language of section 902(a) and its regulations are unclear. The Court was not persuaded that the reference to "accumulated profits" necessarily meant all of the foreign corporation's accumulated profits for the year. The Court interpreted the language "on or with respect to the accumulated profits of such Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-06 Quyết định Estate of Mellinger v. Commissioner, 112 T.C. 4 (1999). Vấn đề Reflects the Service's acquiescence in the Court's conclusion that closely-held stock held in a QTIP trust should not be aggregated, for valuation pusposes, with stock in the same corporation held in a revocable trust and includible in the decedent's gross estate. The Tax Court's decision in this case is consistent with the Service’s position regarding the valuation of minority interests passing to QTIP trusts. The proper funding of the Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-05 Quyết định St. Jude Medical, Inc. v Comm, 34 F. 3d 1394 (8th Cir. 1994). Vấn đề Reflects the conclusion by the Eighth Circuit that for purposes of calculating the CTI of a DISC, mandating the use of SIC categories to allocate R&D expenses is inconsistent with Congress's intent in enacting the DISC statute to allow costs to be allocated on a product-by-product basis or on the basis of product lines. The Court also stated that the mandated use of Section 1.861-8 by Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-04 Quyết định Oshkosh Truck Corporation v. United States 123 F.3d 1477. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's acquiescence that a presumed markup percentage must be used in computing the vehicular excise tax on automotive articles sold to the United States directly by manufacturers when there are no retail sales outlets for such automotive articles. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-03 Quyết định Murillo v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1998-13. Vấn đề This Action on Decision reflects the Service's acquiescence in the Court's conclusion, in this case, that the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) forfeiture was similar to the Service's levy on a Keogh account in Larotonda v. Commissioner, 89 T.C. 287 (1987) (involving the predecessor to section 72(t)), and was outside the class of early distributions that Congress intended to discourage in enacting section 72(t). Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-02 Quyết định Larotonda v. Commissioner, AOD CC-1998-010. Vấn đề An action on decision stating that the Service will not acquiescence to the Court's conclusion in Larotonda. Recent legislation warrants the withdrawing of this AOD. The statutory provision effectively at issue in Larotonda was modified by the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, Pub. L. No. 105-206, 112 Stat. 685 (1998), enacted on July 22, 1998. Section 3436 of the Act amends section 72(t) to provided that the early distribution tax shall not apply to a distribution made on account of a levy Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1999-01 Quyết định Eisenberg v. Comm., 155 F. 3d 50 (2d Cir. 1998). Vấn đề This Action on Decision reflects the Service's acquiescence in the Court's conclusion, to the extent, that it held that there is no legal prohibition against the discount in the value of a gift of closely held stock by an amount attributed to the potential capital gains tax liability of the corporation upon liquidation, or upon the sale or distribution of its assets. The applicability of such a discount, as well as its amount, will hereafter be treated as factual matters to be determined by competent expert testimony. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-08 Quyết định Fluor v. U.S., 126 F.3d 1397 (Fed. Cir. 1997). Vấn đề Although the Service agrees with the Federal Circuit's holding that an underpayment of tax that is eliminated by the carryback of excess foreign tax credits from a later year remains due and unpaid for purposes of computing interest until the year in which the credit arises, the Service does not agree with the court's determination that interest on the underpayment stops running on the last day of that tax year. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-07 Quyết định Clark D. & Janis L. Pulliam v. Comm., T.C. Memo. 1997-274. Vấn đề This Action on Decision reflects the Service's disagreement with the Tax Court's opinion, on the facts presented, that protecting against competition and retaining a key employee are valid corporate business purposes sufficiently compelling to overcome the evidence that a distribution of stock was used as a device for distributing earnings and profits. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-06 Quyết định Estate of Clara K. Hoover v. Comm., 69 F.3d 1044 (10th Cir. 1995). Vấn đề This Action on decision reflects the Service's agreement with the circuit court's ruling that, in the absence of regulations, an estate claiming a special use valuation under I.R.C. § 2032A for property used for farming purposes may also take into account a minority interest discount in valuing the property. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-05 Quyết định McCormick v. Peterson, CV93-2157 (E.D>N.Y. 1993). Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement with the district court's ruling that adding the words "under protest" to the signature of a tax return without otherwise modifying the words of the jurat does not cast doubt on the validity of the jurat and, accordingly, does not invalidate the document as a return. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-04 Quyết định Fredericks v. Commissioner, No. 96-7748. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement with the circuit court's ruling that, based upon the particular facts of this case, the Service was equitably estopped from relying upon a Form 872-A to indefinitely extend the period of imitations for making an assessment when the Service's actions misled the taxpayer into believing that the form was not in effect. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-03 Quyết định Golden Belt Telephone Coop v. Comm, 108 T.C. 498 (1997). Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement that, in determining the tax exempt status of a rural telephone cooperative, payments to the cooperative by long distance providers for billing and collection services are excluded in determining the percentage of payments received by the cooperative for communication services provided to its members. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-02 Quyết định Bilzerian v. United States, 86 F.3d 1067 (11th Cir. 1996) Vấn đề Reflects the Service's acquiescence in the result reached by the Eleventh Circuit in holding that once an assessed tax liability is paid by the taxpayer, the Service cannot use administrative collection actions to collect that liability even if the Service had erroneously refunded all or part of the liability after its payment. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1998-01 Quyết định Beatty v. Commissioner, 106 T.C. 268 (1996). Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement that a county sheriff was entitled to reduce his gross receipts by costs of goods sold in computing income from providing meals to prisoners. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-14 Quyết định Transwestern Pipeline Co. v. United States, 639 F.2d 679. Vấn đề Revised AOD reflects the Service's agreement with the Court of Claims' conclusion that recoverable line pack gas, which is used to maintain adequate pressure in gas pipelines, is appropriately treated as a capital asset rather than included in the taxpayer's inventory of gas available for sale. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-13 Quyết định Pacific Enterprises & Subs. v. Comm., 101 T.C. 1 (1993). Vấn đề This Action on decision reflects the Service's agreement that recoverable cushion gas and recoverable line pack gas, which are used to maintain adequate pressure in gas storage reservoirs and pipelines, respectively, are appropriately treated as nondepreciable capital assets. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-12 Quyết định Jackson v. Comm, 108 T.C. 130 (1997) ( T.C. # 23558-94). Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement that a former insurance agent is not required to pay tax under the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA) on specified contractual termination payments he received from an insurance company upon the termination of his contract with the insurance company. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-11 Quyết định Trans City Life Insurance Company v. Commissioner. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's disagreement with the Tax Court's conclusion that the Commissioner abused his discretion in determining that reinsurance agreements entered into by the taxpayer with an unrelated insurer had a significant tax avoidance effect. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-10 Quyết định Sun Microsystems, Inc. v. Commissioner, T.C.M. 1995-69. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement that the income recognized by the taxpayer's employees under I.R.C. § 421(b) on the "disqualifying disposition" of incentive stock options were includable as "wages" incurred as a research expense in calculating the taxpayer's credit for increasing research expenses under I.R.C. § 41. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-09 Quyết định Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. v. Commissioner, 108 F.3d 290. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's acceptance of the Eleventh Circuit's holding that the I.R.C. § 4471 excise tax on voyages on commercial passenger vessels does not apply to voyages on which passengers embark or disembark at intermediate stops within the United States if the voyage both begins and ends outside the United States. Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-08 Quyết định May Department Stores Co. v. United States, 36 Fed. Cl. 680. Vấn đề May Department Stores Co. v. United States, 36 Fed. Cl. 680 (Ct. Fed. Cls. 1996). AOD reflects the Service's agreement that, if a taxpayer elects to have overpayments of tax reported on a timely filed income tax return credited to the next year's tax liability without specifying the estimated tax installment against which the overpayment is to be credited, the Service, in computing interest on any subsequently determined tax deficiencies for the tax year in which the overpayments were reported, will not treat the reported overpayments of tax as having been credited against installments of Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000
Số 1997-07 Quyết định The Edna Louise Dunn Trust v. Commissioner. Vấn đề Reflects the Service's agreement that a corporation's distribution of stock to shareholders in a spinoff of a subsidiary was tax-free under I.R.C. § 355(a)(1). Ngày Phát Hành 03/03/2000