Hospital And Other Illinois Property Tax Exemption Decisions In 2019

                          The Illinois Supreme Court’s decision in Oswald v. Hamer (2018 IL 122203, 115 N.E.3d 181, 425 Ill.Dec. 626 (Ill., September 20, 2018)) upheld a General Assembly action changing the statute which was interpreted to deny a charitable use exemption for a hospital…

IRS Seizes Cash Deposits

The New York Times this week described an asset forfeiture case involving a restaurant with routine cash deposits of less than $10,000. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/14/us/irs-asset-forfeiture-case-is-dropped-.html?_r=0 Take-away: Get the information for a Form 8300, including taxpayer information numbers, for cash payments, even those involving non-terrorist items like Iowa eggs and bacon for breakfast, or risk equivalent (and unjustified) government…