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By on May 22, 2019
In a prior blog post, we discussed some of the items of interest in the 2018 IRS Criminal Investigation Division's 2018 Annual Report released in November 2018. In recent weeks, there have been a few additional items of interest involving IRS Criminal Investigation (CI).
By on May 3, 2019
Recurring problems with many S corporations include the untimely discovery of a failure to timely file an S election, filing of an inadvertently invalid election, or inadvertent termination of a previously valid S election. Often times many years will have passed before discovery of an ineffective or inadvertently terminated S election. Absent relief, the termination of an S election can have severe consequences, particularly where the corporation has been making regular distributions. Because this is a pervasive problem under the election requirements of Subchapter S, Congress granted the IRS the power under section 1362(f) to waive invalid or inadvertently terminated S elections provided that certain requirements are satisfied.