This law book offers an insider's perspective on both the legal issues and practical considerations involved in handling a federal tax controversy.

Designed to cover every aspect of a United States Tax Court case from start to finish, Litigating a Case in Tax Court provides detailed guidance and tips on the Tax Court process in an easy-to-read and easy-to-use paper format with an online portal for accessing many sample documents that practitioners can use.

The book provides a guide to tax disputes in Australia. It explains the process of tax objections and appeals, and the limitations to collateral challenges. Separate chapters consider the rules applicable to tax disputes brought in the Federal Court and in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and ancillary issues of discovery and access to information. The book aims also to provide helpful assistance to the practitioner and to students in the preparation of submissions, persuasive advocacy and the provision to courts and tribunals of useful expert evidence in support of disputed positions.

Tax Litigation Handbook authored by Pump Court Tax Chambers is the successor to the previously published Hamilton on Tax Appeals. It covers tax appeals process (First Tier Tribunal and Upper Tier litigation), including the types of decision that can be appealed and how an appeal can be brought. It also addresses procedures relating to other types of tax litigation, such as judicial review to the Upper Tier Tribunal, claims for professional negligence, insolvency procedures and High Court litigation. The rules are for remote hearings which have been more common in recent times are also covered. The procedures and principles for seeking costs before the First Tier Tribunal are covered in a separate chapter. All commentary is clearly presented with extensive referencing to relevant cases . The book will be of interest to those representing clients of all sizes in an appeal, or those considering appealing a decision.

This fifith edition of Litigation Support will prove indispensable to litigation lawyers, arbitration lawyers, forensic accountants, expert witnesses, plus all professionals involved in UK commercial disputes. The book will assist lawyers keeping in step with the latest developments including: the importance of quantum at an early stage of a dispute * how and why IT solutions are an integral part of any forensic accountant's armory * the impact of the UK's Civil Procedure Rules * fraud issues both internationally and domestically * the latest divorce proceedings (clients will benefit from a step-by-step guide to obtaining ancillary relief) * recent UK case law changes affecting professional negligence, intellectual property, and personal injury rules.

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.