Tax Chat! 01 September 2020

Registration Now Open for Tax Chat! with Professor Pasquale Pistone and Philip Baker, QC about the Observatory on Taxpayers' Rights 01 September 2020 | Noon EDT | 17:00 BST | 18:00 CEST Join Nina Olson, Executive Director of the Center for Taxpayer Rights, for the inaugual session of Tax Chat!, the Center's online series of conversations about taxpayer rights and tax administration.  Nina will be joined by Professor Pasquale Pistone and Philip Baker, QC, the co-directors of the Observatory on Taxpayers' Rights, to discuss the Observatory's most recent General and National Reports. The Observatory on the Protection of Taxpayers' Rights,…

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Amicus Curiae Briefs

The Summer of Amicus Curiae Briefs Dear friends, This issue of the Taxpayer Rights Digest finds us discussing recent activity in the U.S. courts, with filings on behalf of the Center in several cases.  Historically, because low and middle income taxpayers have no or limited resources, the impact of tax agency actions or procedures on these or small business taxpayers was not brought to the attention of the courts.  With the advent of the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) movement, this trend is being reversed. The expansion of LITCs in the United States, after the enactment of a federal grant…

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