Sharon L. McCarthy participates in a panel titled “How to Navigate Defending PPP, EIDL and ERC Cases” at the American Bar Association’s 2023 May Tax Meeting in Washington, D.C. on May 6, 2023. Description: The Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs were designed to push money out
On March 29, 2023, Christopher M. Ferguson presents a webinar entitled “Pandemic Relief Fraud: A Three-Year Retrospective” for the CPA Academy. Description: On March 27 of this year, we marked the three-year anniversary of Congress’s passage of the CARES Act. The CARES Act extended a vital lifeline to small businesses
On April 26-28, 2023, Don Fort introduces a keynote address by IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee, moderates a separate panel titled “Views from Law Enforcement,” and provides closing remarks at the 2nd Annual AML Partnership Forum. Kostelanetz LLP is an event sponsor along with Condor Consulting, Truist, Ally, Allen & Overy,
On March 23, 2023, the IRS included improper fuel tax credit claims in its growing 2023 Dirty Dozen list of abusive tax scams. IR-2023-55. The fuel tax credit is reserved for off-highway businesses and farming use and is claimed by filing Form 4136, Credit for Federal Tax Paid on Fuels.
On March 20, 2023, the IRS named widespread claims promoting Employee Retention Credits (ERC) to ineligible employers as the first entry on its 2023 Dirty Dozen list. This announcement follows three warnings issued by the IRS over the past six months related to the ERC program. See Kostelanetz’s previous alert
The Federal Criminal Procedure Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers, now chaired by Steptoe & Johnson partner Brian Heberlig, who succeeded Kostelanetz partner Sharon L. McCarthy in that role, has published a white paper proposing an amendment to Fed. R. Crim. P. 23(a) to eliminate the requirement that the government
On March 7, 2023, the IRS issued IR-2023-40, its third warning in six months related to fraud and abuse in the Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) program. The ERC, created under the CARES Act to assist businesses that continued to pay their employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, is a refundable tax
Caroline Ciraolo and Don Fort participate in a panel titled “Managing Criminal Tax Investigations to Avoid Charges” at the American Bar Association’s 23rd annual U.S. and Europe Tax Practice Trends Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, on March 31, 2023. Moderator: Caroline Ciraolo, Kostelanetz LLP, Washington, DC Panelists: Don Fort, Director of
Don Fort moderates a panel on IRS enforcement priorities at “What’s Coming Down the Hill,” an all-day event co-hosted by Kostelanetz LLP, KaiserDillon PLLC, and Georgetown University Law Center on March 13, 2023. Click here to learn more and register.
Don Fort presents a webinar titled “Coming Attractions: 2023 IRS Criminal and Civil Tax Enforcement Priorities, including the “Dirty Dozen”” for myCPE on March 10, 2023. Description: Tax season and times of crisis are when tax scams typically increase. The IRS publishes a list of the “Dirty Dozen” to help
