2020 Midyear Review – Conservation Tax Cases So Far
It is summertime and beautiful in California. Unfortunately, it’s not [...]
New Year’s Update for Conservation Easement and Carbon Transactions
Tax Court Ignores IRS’s Commercial Timber Assault and CCLT Carbon [...]
Federal News: More Bad Law Bubbling Up from Syndicated and Overvalued Conservation Easements
IRS Continues to Attack Foot Faults and Retained Rights Instead [...]
Tax Court Upholds Amendment Clauses but Continues Attack on Floating Homesites in Conservation Easements
When the Tax Court issued its opinion in Pine Mountain Preserve, [...]
Happy New Year’s Tidings for Land Trusts and Other Conservation Advocates
DOJ sues Syndicated Easement Promoters The Department of Justice has [...]
Three Autumn Cases Deny Golf Course and Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Deductions
Service Focuses on Conservation Purpose Test and Division of Proceeds [...]
IRS Publishes New Gift Substantiation Regulations
Last month, the IRS issued final regulations entitled “Substantiation and [...]
Denial of Conservation Easement Deduction: Right Result, Puzzling Analysis
Earlier this month, the U.S. Tax Court handed down an [...]
Hobby Lobby Case Highlights Limitations on Charitable Deductions Claimed by Irrevocable Trusts
Green v. U.S., No. 16-6371 (10th Cir., Jan. 12, 2018) [...]
Tax Court Declines to Follow First Circuit Ruling on Mortgage Subordinations & Conservation Easements
This month, the Tax Court revived a method to defeat [...]