Kostelanetz attorneys Andrew Weiner and Bryan C. Skarlatos will speak at the 84th Institute on Federal Taxation, hosted by the NYU School of Professional Studies. The conference will be held in San Francisco at Fairmont Hotel from November. 16-21, 2025. Andrew’s session, “Nuts and Bolts of a Partnership BBA Audit,”
Megan L. Brackney, Victor Suthammanont, Gray Proctor, and Andy Weiner co-wrote an article for Tax Notes titled “Can [Tax] Promoter Penalties be ‘Excessive Fines’ Under the Eighth Amendment?” The article is the third in a series considering the constitutional problems with the tax shelter promoter penalties of IRC § 6700.
Kostelanetz attorneys Andrew Weiner, Bryan C. Skarlatos, and Karen Kelly will speak at the 41st Annual UCLA Tax Controversy Conference at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on October 23, 2025. Continuing education credit is offered, and attendance is in-person only. Kostelanetz is a proud Silver sponsor of this
Caroline Ciraolo and Andy Weiner will speak at the 46th annual meeting of the National Association of State Bar Tax Sections (NASBTS) hosted by the Washington State Taxation Section at Fox Rothschild LLP’s offices in Seattle, WA, from September 25-26, 2025. The conference offers a wide variety of sessions in
Kostelanetz counsel Andy Weiner discussed his observations on the tumult that has affected the tax world in 2025. Andy notes that Kostelanetz’s clients and peers within the government are operating in an era of uncertainty in the wake of recent regulatory and administrative changes. However, Andy noted that IRS employees
Kostelanetz LLP filed an amicus brief in support of the members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Leadership in Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the IRS’s sharing taxpayer information with ICE for immigration enforcement. Counsel Andy Weiner and Robert
Kostelanetz attorneys Caroline D. Ciraolo, Andrew Weiner, and Michael Waalkes recently asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse and remand a U.S. Tax Court ruling that denied a request for innocent spouse relief. In LaRosa v. Commissioner (No. 24-2034), Kostelanetz argues that liabilities consisting of an erroneous refund of payments of interest on
Kostelanetz attorneys Andrew Weiner, Todd Welty, and Gray Proctor have filed two friend of the court (amicus) briefs on behalf of the Center for Taxpayer Rights in cases in which taxpayers are seeking jury trials to challenge civil tax fraud penalties issued by the IRS or the U.S. Tax Court.
Andy Weiner will present on a panel entitled “Balancing Tax Planning, Advocacy, and Professional Ethics: The Rules That Every Tax Advisor Should Know” at the Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) three-day Tax Planning for Domestic & Foreign Partnerships, LLCs, Joint Ventures & Other Strategic Alliances conference in Chicago on April 24,
Counsel Andy Weiner wrote an article for the Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure, co-authored with Miri Forster of EisnerAmpner, titled “Buckle Up: Navigating the Long Road of the BBA Partnership Audit”. The article provides a primer on partnership audits under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), which introduced
