Bright idea doesn’t apply to S corporations

Paul DiMundo set up a corporation in 2002, had all of the shares issued to a custodial Roth IRA account and had the corporation elect to be taxed as an S corporation. An S corporation is generally not subject to tax. Instead, the income of the S corporation is taxed...

Litterers worse than tax cheats?

The message of a recent survey seems to be: Don’t get caught littering. Forbes magazine reports that the Shelton Group, a green marketing firm based in Knoxville, Tenn., had 1,105 Americans complete online surveys in an effort to find out what kind of...

Tax court judge shows creative side

Judge Robert A. Wherry, Jr., took a novel approach when outlining the facts of a recent Tax Court case involving a waitress who received a winning lottery ticket from a customer. The facts of the case (Tonda L. Dickerson v. Commissioner, TC Memo 2012-60, March 6,...