Real Tax Court decisions retold in plain English, because the fastest way to understand what documentation is worth is to watch what happens without it. Every brief comes from the public opinion, and new ones land as the courts hand them down.
A completely legal strategy, and a $290,000 deduction cut to about $16,500 for lack of paperwork.
Read the brief → Case briefThe IRS accepted every receipt and still won, because profit motive is its own test.
Read the brief → Case briefFour hundred checks for one owner's personal life, and the 75 percent fraud penalty that followed.
Read the brief → Case briefA time log built from standardized guesses, and the real estate losses that vanished with it.
Read the brief → Case briefWhen your own general ledger testifies against your tax return, the ledger usually wins.
Read the brief →A short note now and then, with the few things actually worth knowing. No noise.
Straightforward walkthroughs for the questions clients ask us most.
The dates and deadlines that matter, in one place, so nothing slips.
In every brief above, the strategy itself was legal and often ordinary. What failed was the implementation: the minutes never taken, the log built after the fact, the books that said something different from the return. If you want a written read on where your own setup stands, that is what the free Tax Position Review is for.
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