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Government auditors say that the IRS knows of over forty types of promoter-marketed abusive tax schemes. These schemes range from highly complex, multilayer transactions to basic tax dodges. Included in this list are the usual suspects:
- Abusive syndicated conservation easement donations.
- Improper R&D credit refund claims.
- Microcaptive insurance ruses.
- Abusive use of charitable remainder annuity trusts.
- Certain monetized installment sales.
- Plus, ploys involving digital assets and offshore accounts.
The IRS hears of new tax schemes through referrals from its auditors and the public and from tips from other agencies. The agency has done hundreds of probes into promoters of these schemes in 2021 and 2022, which has led to about $120 million in assessed penalties.
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Expect those assessed penalty numbers to increase as the IRS’s Office of Promoter Investigations, created in 2021, steps up its game. One can surmise that the IRS will use a portion of its $80 billion in extra funding over the next ten years to root out more promoter shenanigans.
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