December 23, 2025
Over the past year, federal courts have issued decisions that extended the deadline for challenging tax bills in the U.S. Tax Court, allowed the IRS to pursue a woman's decades-old tax debt caused by her return preparer and lifted a $1 million reporting penalty because a jury didn't sign off. Here, Law360 reviews some of the most significant federal tax decisions of 2025.
September 19, 2025
A woman who faced more than $1 million in civil penalties for failing to report offshore bank accounts to the IRS is off the hook, as a Texas federal court ruled Friday that the federal government violated her constitutional right to a jury trial.
May 15, 2025
A Texan urged a federal court to dismiss the U.S. government's suit seeking to collect $1 million in penalties for unreported offshore bank accounts, arguing that the IRS' penalty assessment violated her constitutional right to a jury trial.
April 24, 2025
Constitutional law does not stop the U.S. from imposing $1.7 million in penalties against a Texan for failure to report foreign bank accounts, the U.S. told a federal court in arguing against the "myriad" of arguments she has made to dismiss the case.
March 13, 2025
Constitutional law bars the United States from imposing $1.7 million in penalties for failure to report foreign bank accounts, a Texan said in urging a federal court to dismiss such an assessment against her.
November 27, 2024
A Texas woman should face penalties for willfully failing to disclose foreign bank accounts from 2011 through 2013, which held balances exceeding $1.7 million, the U.S. government told a federal court Wednesday.