Due to my travel to Toronto beginning on Friday, I'm actually recording this on Thursday rather than the normal Saturday date.

This week on Current Federal Tax Developments we look at the following:

New attorney loses his attempt to get nearly 50 year old regulation declared invalid by Tax Court
Designated Roth IRAs can now be more easily rolled over
There’s Always a Gotcha - Taxpayer discovers that text that told him gain wasn’t taxable in treaty overridden by text elsewhere in the treaty
When the IRS takes your money to pay a debt another agency claims you owe, don’t ask the IRS or Tax Court to solve your issue with that agency
Legal marijuana sellers get the ability to obtain offers in compromise -- but, again with a gotch a

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The text of articles for the developments discussed this week is available in PDF form below.