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In her midyear report to Congress, National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins writes that, as of April, the IRS was taking over 22 months to resolve cases in its identity theft victim assistance unit, which had about 500,000 unresolved cases.

The IRS on Monday issued final regulations providing guidance on the new rule that disallows charitable contribution deductions for certain conservation easement contributions by partnerships and other passthrough entities.

The Court will rule by the end of its term Friday on the fate of the Chevron doctrine, which requires courts to give deference to a reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute by a government agency, including the IRS.

The IRS issued guidance for exceptions for emergency personal expense distributions and for domestic abuse victim distributions.

The IRS says that at least 10% of employee retention credit claims will be denied in the coming weeks and that at least 60% of claims show an “unacceptable” level of risk. The IRS will leave in place its moratorium on processing a majority of recent claims.

The Supreme Court upheld the mandatory repatriation tax as a valid exercise of Congress’s taxing authority. The Court did not reach the question of whether income must be realized to be taxable.

Under new final regulations issued by the IRS, taxpayers can generally increase the base amount of certain credits or deductions by five times when they meet prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements.

The Service said it will release new proposed regulations and a revenue ruling to challenge the use of basis-shifting transactions used by complex partnerships in moves that could add over $50 billion to government coffers over 10 years.

The IRS issued a notice extending earlier relief for a corporation’s failure to pay the part of estimated income tax attributable to the revised corporate alternative minimum tax.

New employee retention credit (ERC) claims continue to be filed, and the IRS still has a backlog of claims from before a processing moratorium was announced in September. National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins says “soon” is the answer to when the moratorium will end. Meanwhile, some business owners sit and wait.