Valuation, Highest and Best Use, and Easements: New IRS Attacks

 

The article summarizes the rules affecting conservation easement donations, identifies the “technical” arguments on which the IRS has heavily relied, describes newer attacks by the IRS focused on appraisals, analyzes multiple sources supporting valuation of real property based on its highest and best use, and suggests that the IRS has failed to adequately explain why it, taxpayers, and/or the courts should ignore longstanding authorities.

Read the full article here.

About Hale E. Sheppard
HALE E. SHEPPARD, Esq. (B.S., M.A., J.D., LL.M., LL.M.T.) is a Shareholder in the Tax Controversy Section of Chamberlain Hrdlicka and Chair of the International Tax Group.

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