October 07, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision compelling a small-business owner to produce documents in a tax evasion investigation, rejecting the appeal over whether doing so would violate a constitutional right against self-incrimination.
September 27, 2019
From challenging 30-year precedent that requires small-business owners to turn over self-incriminating tax records to determining the ownership of tax refunds among affiliated groups, the U.S. Supreme Court’s fall docket contains many interesting cases involving federal tax law. Here, Law360 looks at four federal tax cases to watch in the upcoming term.
May 13, 2019
Two legal advocacy groups have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a business owner's appeal challenging subpoenas in a tax evasion investigation, saying a 30-year-old restriction on small business owners' Fifth Amendment rights unjustifiably expands federal government powers.
March 19, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court should consider overruling a decades-old decision forcing small-business owners under federal investigation to turn over records that could incriminate them, a violation of the Fifth Amendment, a taxpayer has argued.