income-tax
18 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-28 | Claude Franklin Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act agency-filing federal-register income-tax jurisdiction tax-court | QUESTION 1: Is the IRS required by 5 U.S.C. §552(a)(l) to publish in the Federal Register the places where federal income tax returns are to be filed?… |
| 24-1317 | Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-06-26 | Denied | Response Waived | employer-liability income-tax internal-revenue-service perjury tax-code tax-determination | 1. Does the Tax Code authorize the employer to determine the employee's income tax liability without consent and may the Commissioner of Internal Reve… |
| 24-7258 | In Re Paul Kenneth Cromar | 2025-05-21 | Denied | IFP | 16th-amendment constitutional-authority federal-district-court income-tax non-apportioned-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction | Does the federal district court possess the subject-matter jurisdiction required to conduct tax trials of American citizens to enforce IRS assessments… | |
| 24-659 | Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-12-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law constitutional-interpretation income-tax tax-deficiency territory-clause uniformity-clause | In light of this Court recent holding in Moore etux v. United States (2024), that income taxes are indirect taxes subject to the Constitution 's Unifo… |
| 23-903 | David E. Stone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure-act bundled-mortgages executive-branch executive-branch-discretion income-tax internal-revenue-code mortgage-taxation sovereign-immunity tax-collection | Whether the Commissioner, as an arm of the executive branch, has absolute discretion and sovereign immunity under the Administrative Procedure Act to … |
| 23-361 | Brian D. Swanson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-interpretation federal-appellate-procedure frivolous-sanction income-tax insular-cases puerto-rico territorial-status uniformity-clause unincorporated-territory | In the decision below, The Eleventh Circuit summarily affirmed the dismissal of petitioner's income tax refund suit, which challenged Puerto Rico's st… |
| 22-800 | Charles G. Moore, et ux. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-23 | Judgment Issued | Amici (51)Relisted (2) | apportionment apportionment-requirement article-i congress-power congressional-taxation constitutional-interpretation income-tax realization realization-doctrine sixteenth-amendment | Whether the Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to tax unrealized sums without apportionment among the states. |
| 21-624 | Brian D. Swanson v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-28 | Denied | Response Waived | 11th-circuit circuit-court commissioner direct-tax frivolous income-tax internal-revenue supreme-court supreme-court-precedent tax taxable-income | 1. May the Commissioner of Internal Revenue collect a uniform direct tax on Petitioner's taxable income? 2. Does the decision of The Eleventh Circuit… |
| 19-973 | Brian D. Swanson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response Waived | apportionment capital capital-tax constitutional-taxation direct-tax federal-tax-return income-classification income-tax rule-12(b)(6) tax-refund | 1. May the Respondent collect a direct tax on Petitioner 's capital without going through the rule of apportionment? 2. May Respondent use Petition… |
| 19-954 | Brian E. Harriss v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-xvi civil-rights constitutional constitutional-interpretation direct-taxation due-process income-tax ninth-circuit standing statutory tax tax-law | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit commit reversible and plain Constitutional error by recharacterizing, without evidence, Petitioner's right to refute Commissi… |
| 19-6681 | Louis Milton Willis v. Territory of the Virgin Islands | Virgin Islands | 2019-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 48-usc-1612 district-court exclusive-jurisdiction gross-receipts-tax income-tax organic-act revised-organic-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction virgin-islands | Whether the plain language of § 22 of the Revised Organic Act of 1954 [48 U.S.C. § 1612(a)] establishing that "the District Court of the Virgin Isla… |
| 19-366 | Walter C. Lange v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process eighth-amendment excise fifth-amendment first-amendment income-tax indirect-tax tax-code title-26 vagueness | Whether the income tax under Title 26 of the U.S. Code is an indirect tax and therefore exclusively an excise, duty or impost arising from the exercis… |
| 19-119 | Staples, Inc., et al. v. Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland | Maryland | 2019-07-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apportionment commerce-clause constitutional-taxation due-process franchise-fees income-apportionment income-tax interstate-commerce royalty royalty-fees royalty-income state-courts state-taxation | When an out-of-State business receives royalty fees, franchise fees, or similar payments from in-State businesses, may a State imposing income taxes c… |
| 18-1485 | Michael Kansler, et ux. v. Mississippi Department of Revenue | Mississippi | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commerce-clause double-taxation due-process income-tax internal-consistency internal-consistency-test interstate-commerce residency state-tax-law state-taxation statute-of-limitations tax-statute-of-limitations | 1. Is Mississippi's income tax refund statute of limitation immune per se from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, 43… |
| 18-1405 | Robert N. Taylor, III v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-05-08 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment good-faith income-tax standing tax tax-liability waiver waiver-of-rights | Whether a citizen who is standing upon his constitutionally protected rights can be compelled, against his good faith understanding of his liability u… |
| 18-7887 | Rodney Lyle Roberts v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 16th-amendment apportionment brushaber-case constitutional-basis constitutional-interpretation direct-income-tax direct-tax fifth-circuit-precedent income-tax parker-v-commissioner precedent sixteenth-amendment tax tax-law | Whether the Fifth Circuit precedent, in their ruling in Parker v. Commissioner 7724F.2d469fliQ'L), becomes unassailable in holding that the Supreme Co… |
| 18-664 | Cynthia Bauerly, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Revenue v. William Fielding, Trustee of the Reid and Ann MacDonald Irrevocable GST Trust for Maria V. MacDonald, et al. | Minnesota | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Relisted (2) | conflict-of-laws constitutional-law due-process family-business income-tax income-taxation resident-trust resident-trusts state-taxation trustee-location | Does the Due Process Clause prohibit states from imposing incomes taxes on statutory "resident trusts" that have significant additional contacts with … |
| 18-5353 | Juanita L. Berry v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure court-of-appeals district-court due-process income-classification income-tax irs-regulations loans loss-calculation promissory-notes property-rights tax tax-evasion tax-law wire-fraud | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's legal holding that promissory notes between Berry and a vendor were income and… |