tax-assessment

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25-719 Stanley Battat, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending administrative-procedure initial-determination irc-section-6751 managerial-approval tax-assessment tax-penalty Internal Revenue Code Section 6751(b)(1) provides that "[n]o penalty under this title shall be assessed unless the initial determination of such asses…
25-205 Schuyler E. Cole, et al. v. City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii Hawaii 2025-08-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment property-valuation tax-assessment tax-classification Whether a real property tax class that consists of certain residential properties that are distinguished from identical residential properties based s…
24-238 Charles K. Breland, Jr. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2024-09-03 Denied Response Waived bankruptcy-court consent-order iRS-claims res-judicata tax-assessment tax-liability In the Petitioner's Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, the IRS filed multiple proofs of claim asserting that Petitioner owed federal income tax for yea…
23-1037 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Isobel Berry Culp, et vir Third Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied 26-usc-6213 internal-revenue-service judicial-review petition-timeliness statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-procedure untimely-petition 1. Whether 26 U.S.C. 6213(a) grants the Tax Court jurisdiction to review an untimely petition for redetermination of a tax deficiency? 2. Even assumi…
23-762 Sam Silverberg v. District of Columbia, et al. District of Columbia 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived appellate-discretion constitutional-challenge constitutional-challenges exclusive-jurisdiction federal-jurisdiction property-rights state-revenues subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-assessment tax-assessments Whether the exclusive jurisdiction to shield local tax assessments from constitutional challenges in a federal court to protect state revenues can be …
23-614 Rocky Branch Timberlands LLC v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-07 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act civil-procedure due-process irs iRS-procedure judicial-review tax-assessment tax-collection taxpayer-rights Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of taxes also bars courts from enforcing…
23-443 MMN Infrastructure Services, LLC, Successor in Interest to Vectren Infrastructure Services Corp. v. Michigan Department of Treasury Michigan 2023-10-27 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived corporate-disclosure extraterritorial-taxation factor-representation fair-apportionment interstate-commerce short-tax-year tax-apportionment tax-assessment temporal-element 1. Whether, to comply with the requirements of fair apportionment and the prohibition on extraterritorial taxation, a state must include in its state …
23-5703 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. ABN AMRO, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-liberties civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-interpretation property property-rights takings tax-assessment Question not identified.
23-233 Antero Resources Corporation v. Matthew R. Irby, West Virginia Tax Commissioner, et al. West Virginia 2023-09-13 Denied Response Waived dormant-commerce-clause in-state-sellers interstate-commerce natural-gas out-of-state-sellers post-production-expenses property-tax tax-assessment For the tax assessments at issue in these appeals, West Virginia did not allow owners of natural gas wells to deduct their actual post-production expe…
22-6692 Jerez Coleman v. Maryland Maryland 2023-02-02 Denied IFP administrative-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection procedural-burden property-rights property-tax takings tax-assessment tax-sale Question not identified.
22-6456 Paul D. Weldon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment attorney-general-authorization due-process irs jurisdictional-challenge tax-assessment tax-collection third-party-filing third-party-filings Observing that an "assessment is expected to be rational, not flawless. Caulfield v. Comm V, 33 F.3d 991, 993 (8th Cir. 1994). Material Issue Existing…
22-473 Hancock County Land Acquisitions, LLC v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied Response Waived anti-injunction-act civil-procedure due-process irs iRS-procedure judicial-review tax-assessment tax-collection tax-law taxpayer-rights Whether the Anti-Injunction Act's bar on lawsuits for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collect of taxes also bars courts from enforcing la…
22-5386 Pamela Bond v. McKean County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2022-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process judicial-interpretation pennsylvania-law property property-tax real-estate real-estate-law tax-assessment tax-delinquency taxation vehicle-transfer The 2005 Dodge Caravan owned by the Petitioner in this case was still registered in the State of Pennsylvania when she signed it over to Bednar Metals…
21-1457 Quiller Barnes v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2022-05-18 Denied Response Waived due-process internal-revenue-regulations irs-regulations pension-funds pension-rollover retirement-funds rollover statute-of-limitations tax-assessment tax-law Were the Petitioner's 1996 Pension funds from Pacific Bell Telephone Company, which was properly rolled over within 60 days of his retirement, per his…
20-1583 Jeffrey Olson v. Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue Minnesota 2021-05-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure appeal commissioner-order commissioner's-order due-process mail-notice ordinary-mail procedural-due-process tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-procedure Under Minnesota tax procedure, the central procedural event is the issuance of a Commissioner's Order, by which the Minnesota Commissioner of Revenue …
20-880 Michael H. Holland, as Trustee for the United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund and United Mine Workers of America 1992 Benefit Plan, et al. v. Westmoreland Coal Company, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-04 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax tax-assessment 1. Is the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act available to debtors who want to avoid paying a tax for reasons unrelated to th…
20-620 Anthony Dwayne Williams, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2020-11-09 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protections constitutional-rights due-process excise-tax federal-income-tax internal-revenue-code nontaxpayer nontaxpayer-status statutory-notice tax-assessment tax-liability taxpayer Should the United States Federal Income Tax be viewed in a different way (or perspective) when determining the assessment for the liability or penalty…
20-316 Maria Pappas, Cook County Treasurer, et al. v. A.F. Moore & Associates, Inc., et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-09-10 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights comity-doctrine due-process equal-protection real-estate real-estate-assessment tax-assessment tax-injunction-act tax-refund 1. Whether the Equal Protection Clause mandates that a real estate taxpayer seeking a refund based on an over assessment of real property be able to c…
20-215 Richard Bernholz v. Internal Revenue Service Second Circuit 2020-08-25 Denied Response Waived federal-tort-claims-act government-liability immunity internal-revenue-service sovereign-immunity statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-collection The question presented is whether any conduct by the Internal Revenue Service which may broadly be construed as a mechanism for the assessment and col…
19-8534 Robert W. Johnson v. Performant Recovery, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction standing tax-assessment Question not identified.
19-7576 James Anthony Davis v. Angleton Independent School District, et al. Texas 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process government-interference necessary-parties property-rights res-judicata taking-clause takings tax-assessment 1. Whether the Petitioner could be liable for the 2012 taxes as he was not the property owner on January 01,2012. 2. Whether the government's interfe…
19-261 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction collateral-estoppel due-process informal-notice statute-of-limitations sua-sponte-sanction tax-appeal tax-assessment tax-assessment-statute-of-limitations tax-code tax-court tax-return valid-return Whether the court below, in conflict with its own precedents as well as those of this Court and five other Circuit Courts of Appeal, erred in holding …
19-5151 Jeffrey T. Maehr v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 16th-amendment due-process findings-of-fact grand-jury-access income-definition irs-actions standing standing-precedent stare-decisis tax-assessment tax-assessments tax-levies 1. Can the IRS/United States government Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on th…
19-57 Donald Dewees v. United States District of Columbia 2019-07-09 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection excessive-fines international-tax international-taxation streamlined-filing-compliance-procedures tax-assessment tax-collection tax-compliance tax-convention tax-penalties 1. Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due process? 2. Did th…
18-9433 Timothy J. Stubbs v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof criminal-activity financial-records financial-transparency fraud fraud-or-deceit kawashima-v-holder sentencing-enhancement sophisticated-means tax-assessment tax-evasion Does the Government meet its burden of proof in a tax evasion case (as opposed to failure to file) where the financial records of the accused are trut…
18-1468 United Mine Workers of America Combined Benefit Fund, et al. v. Andre M. Toffel, as Chapter 7 Trustee for Walter Energy Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response Waived 1992-plan-premiums anti-injunction-act bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-code-section-1114 circuit-split coal-act south-carolina-v-regan statutory-interpretation tax-assessment tax-validity 1. Whether the South Carolina v. Regan exception to the Anti-Injunction Act applies only in this Court and, if not, whether it applies only to litigan…
18-9099 Jean-Gespere Pierre v. Alliance Security Services, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied IFP civil-procedure-standing-due-process-takings-pate ' 'civil-procedure" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'due-process" ' 'patent' ' 'standing" ' 'takings" administrative-law civil-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge property-rights tax-assessment Question not identified.
18-792 Ronald Leroy Satterlee v. Alicia Miller-Degase, Assessor of Douglas County, Missouri, et al. Missouri 2018-12-20 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-rights due-process government-authority jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge presumption-of-innocence property-rights property-tax right-of-contract tax-assessment taxation The Question Presented for Review is whether or not this Appellant Has Right To Life, Liberty, Property and Pursuit of Happiness, the Right To Presump…
18-297 Eric White, et al. v. Barbara D. Underwood, Attorney General of New York, et al. New York 2018-09-07 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived canons-of-construction federal-indian-law indian-law indian-rights indian-treaty-rights native-american-rights new-york-indians seneca-nation sovereign-immunity state-taxation statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tax-assessment treaty-interpretation tribal-sovereignty The decision below ruled that New York's promise to the Seneca Nation of Indians to refrain from assessing taxes "for any purpose whatever, upon any I…
18-205 Northern California Water Association, et al. v. California State Water Resources Control Board, et al. California 2018-08-16 Denied Response Waived central-valley-project federal-property intergovernmental-immunity preemption property-rights sovereign-immunity state-taxation state-water-board supremacy-clause tax-assessment taxation water-contractors water-contracts water-rights Is a California statute imposing a direct tax on the United States' property interest in water constitutional if it is applied in a manner that passes…