An updated website launches, the economic substance codification is applied, Loper Bright Entrprs. marches on but hits the statute, and the syndicated conservation easement flood continues, as Tax Court pushes through the government shutdown. The biennial examination for non-attorney admission to Tax Court took place as scheduled.
Lessons Learned from the Tax Court: What’s at Stake?
Matt Metras, EA
Astute readers of this publication may recognize that I frequently write on Cryptocurrency and also on Tax Court cases. It feels like Christmas to me to be able to write about a tax court case about crypto. This is only the Third Tax court case to even mention crypto, and the first to look at the underlying principles of taxation. (The other two were about including crypto assets in a CDP hearing and a frivolous tax protester argument). Today’s case, Paschall v. Commissioner, is about the taxation of staking income.
