Tax Justice Warriors

The American Rescue Plan has now been signed into law. It includes an expansion of the child tax credit for 2021.  That plan expands the age for qualifying children to include 17-year-olds.  It increa...

12 Mars 202115min

This episode provides a roundup of recent tax events and other issues. To begin with, the American Bar Association Midyear Tax Meeting was virtual. I provide highlights regarding the Individual & Fami...

5 Mars 202113min

This is a short episode to provide some highlights on the 2020 tax return that not everyone may be aware of. While I covered some of these items in past episodes, I thought the highlights would be wor...

26 Feb 202111min

This episode details the return of the U.S. Tax Court for hearings in Kansas City, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas in February 2021.  Tune in to hear about remote proceedings, feedback on the Tax Court ...

20 Feb 202119min

The child tax credit is again in the news because of potential increases by Congress. On this episode, I look at the history and the requirements.   I also look at how the credit is both nonrefundable...

13 Feb 202114min

This episode focuses on the current state of affairs in working with IRS Collections and Enforcement. The issues with the IRS customer service are making it difficult to represent clients. As I focuse...

5 Feb 202111min

While I identified on a previous episode changes that the IRS is making for submissions of power of attorney forms, that still does not change how the IRS processes those forms. There were delays last...

29 Jan 20217min

The tax season now starts February 12!   In looking at a crash course in taxes, I decided the easiest way to talk with someone about several concepts was to review the form 1040. In part two, I go thr...

22 Jan 202115min