This book serves as an introductory or supplemental teaching tool for a federal tax practice and procedure course. In addition, it can be used for a variety of course or seminar topics, including tax litigation, criminal tax practice and procedure, and tax ethics. The major change is that this edition will be updated into 2011. There have been several major cases in the tax procedure area and those cases will be in this edition. In addition, the section on collection due process has been expanded.

This casebook provides comprehensive instruction for courses on civil and criminal tax practice and procedure, and as well as tax ethics.

This book serves as an introductory or supplemental teaching tool on the federal tax system. It can be used for a variety of course or seminar topics, including civil tax practice, criminal tax practice and procedure, and tax ethics.

To access the 2015-16 Supplement to this text, click here. To access the 2016 Letter Update to the Supplement, click here. This casebook teaches the mechanics of tax procedure, while stimulating students to think about the broader issues that underlie its structural framework. This edition of Tax Controversies: Practice and Procedure begins with an overview of civil tax procedure and an in-depth discussion of the federal tax gap and the many approaches to closing it. Several of the next chapters focus on stages in the chronology of a typical tax controversy, from examination through eventual litigation. In addition, two chapters focus on tax research and representing tax clients and a new chapter addresses ethics issues in tax cases. An underlying theme - the extent to which the current procedural rules encourage or discourage voluntary compliance with the federal tax system--runs throughout the book. Suitable for J.D. or LL.M. students, or for use in a tax clinic. This edition contains new chapters on summons enforcement, the U.S. Tax Court, the collection due process procedures, "innocent spouse" relief, and ethics issues. Each casebook chapter includes theory questions and a set of fact-based problems to encourage strategic thinking. Several chapters include optional drafting problems. Teacher's Manual provides detailed answers to the problem sets, suggests approaches to the material, and highlights topics more suitable for an advanced course. Separate Documents Volume, Tax Controversies: Statutes, Regulations, and Other Materials, is also available.

Federal Tax Procedure is the book for a course on Tax Procedure taught by Adjunct Professor Townsend at the University of Houston School of Law. The book and related materials contain text discussion, relevant Code Sections, and certain cases designed to encourage students to think about the Tax Procedure process. The book is in electronic format (Adobe Acrobat pdf format) and is in two versions -- (1) a student edition (no footnotes); and (2) a practitioner edition (same as student edition but including the footnotes). Both versions are available free on Mr. Townsend's Scholarly Papers page on SSRN. The pdf versions are updated every summer for use in that year's Fall class and sometimes again in January or February. Additional matters related to the book may be found on Mr. Townsend's Federal Tax Procedure Blog.