Update on Splitting Refunds in Bankruptcy Cases
In May of 2014, I wrote a post describing the way that bankruptcy courts approach splitting refunds in the circumstance in which one spouse goes into bankruptcy the other does not and then the couple...
View ArticleInnocent Spouse Injured by Using the Wrong Form
The difference between innocent and injured spouse can create confusion. That confusion gets illustrated in the case of Palomares v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2014-243 which will soon be argued before...
View ArticleSeeking a Federal Tax Refund via Habeas Corpus – Reminder of the Injured...
In the recent case of Turner v. United States, (N.D. Cal. 2019) a prisoner sought to obtain a refund of money for his wife using the remedy of habeas corpus. Mr. Turner’s effort to obtain the refund...
View ArticleInjured Spouse and Economic Impact Payments
As more and more people receive their Economic Impact Payments (EIPs) over the next few weeks, the number of previously unforeseen issues with EIPs will surely rise commensurately. One that recently...
View ArticleOffset of Injured Spouse Stimulus Payment
On Friday, May 8, the IRS posted Economic Impact Payment FAQ #31 acknowledging that it was aware of the problem that many couples have encountered with the EIP payments. The FAQ indicates that the IRS...
View ArticleInjured Spouse and EIP: Continued and Increasingly Troublesome Issues
When the CARES Act was first passed there was a flurry of activity in the tax practitioner community focusing on what potential issues might arise in the IRS’s administration of the Economic Impact...
View ArticleScheduled Relief for Injured Spouses Whose Stimulus Payments Were Sent...
When the IRS hastily set up the program for making the stimulus payments authorized by the CARES Act, it did not carefully program its computers to distinguish the cases in which one spouse on a joint...
View ArticleIRS in Action: Fixing the Injured Spouse EIP Issue
One of the most frequent problems I’ve seen this summer has been the IRS taking “joint” EIP payments and applying all of it to one of the spouses back-due child support where the other has no such...
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