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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A778 Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2026-01-05 Application innocent-taxpayer iRS-assessment limitations-period section-6501 tax-court tax-fraud Whether the IRS can assess taxes beyond the usual three-year deadline when the taxpayer's preparer intended to file a false or fraudulent return, but …
25-5402 Martin G. Plotkin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-hearing due-process judicial-bias levy-action recusal tax-court 1. Do the intentional, deliberate, and purposeful actions and statements of Tax Court Judge Morrison, whether derived from 'judicial' or 'extrajudicia…
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?…
24-715 Thomas Shands v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2025-01-03 Denied Response Waived internal-revenue-service judicial-review statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court whistleblower-award I. Whether the IRS can deprive the United States Tax Court of subject matter jurisdiction to review the IRS's denial of a mandatory whistleblower awar…
24A567 Frank Bibeau v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2024-12-11 Presumed Complete certiorari eighth-circuit extension-of-time judicial-review petition tax-court Question not identified.
24-416 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Jennifer Zuch Third Circuit 2024-10-15 Judgment Issued Amici (4) administrative-review internal-revenue-service jurisdictional-challenge pre-deprivation-proceeding tax-court tax-levy Whether a proceeding under 26 U.S.C. 6330 for a pre-deprivation determination about a levy proposed by the Internal Revenue Service to collect unpaid …
23-1322 James W. Tindall v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-record agency-record discovery judicial-precedent standard-of-review stare-decisis subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-review whistleblower whistleblower-claim 1.) Whether this dispute is even ripe for review by the Supreme Court of the United States ("this Court") when Respondent's agency administrative reco…
23A738 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Isobel Berry Culp, et vir Third Circuit 2024-02-08 Presumed Complete assessment judicial-review petition statutory-lien tax-court tax-deficiency Question not identified.
23-653 Ritchie N. Stevens, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure irs net-operating-loss partnership partnership-audit tax tax-court tax-law tefra tefra-regime unsigned-returns 1. Whether a net operating loss carryover to a future year that is an "affected item" under the TEFRA Partnership audit regime can be included within …
23-4 John Thomas Minemyer v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Tenth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response Waived internal-revenue-code irs-penalties legislative-history legislative-intent penalty-assessment statutory-interpretation supervisory-approval tax-code tax-court Does the legislative history and intent combined with the Tax Court Judicial history, the internal revenue manual instructions, and the Supreme Courts…
22-6797 Dominick Galluzzo v. Internal Revenue Service Third Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP attorney-misconduct bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure irs iRS-assessment judicial-misconduct proof-of-claim tax-court tax-dispute venue venue-selection Was I mis represented at bankruptcy by my attorney not asking for attachments to PROOF OF CLIAM accoding to rule 3001 and B10 (exhibits H & I) At 20…
22-291 Brian H. McLane v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived appeals-hearing internal-revenue-service notice-of-deficiency overpayment-determination tax-appeals tax-collection tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-liability tax-overpayment When the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) determines a taxpayer owes more than reported on a return, it may mail a notice of deficiency to the taxpayer.…
22-9 Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held—in conflict with precedent of this Court and settled administrative-law principles—that a statute that…
21-1528 Patrick Combs, aka Patrick Davy Combs v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied Response Waived anticipatory-assignment-of-income church civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-dividends due-process ninth-circuit tax tax-court Whether the Ninth Circuit Court committed treason to the Constitution and denied Petitioner his due process of Law by affirming the Tax Court's Order …
21-1035 Joshua Harris v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Second Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response Waived brady-doctrine civil-procedure constitutional-rights discovery discovery-violation due-process evidence-suppression fair-trial in-limine tax-court 1. Whether the U.S Tax Court and the Second Circuit conflicts with the United States Constitution, Amendment 6 and the Fourteenth Amendment to a fair …
21-6737 James P. Donoghue, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue First Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP general-intent judicial-oath judicial-regulation judicial-remand judicial-review objective-review perjury specific-intent statutory-interpretation tax-court 1. Pursuant to 26 C.F.R. § 1.183, whether the lower courts' errored when framing decision under the doctrine of general-intent; using subjective deduc…
21-610 Louis S. Shuman, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fourth Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) court-rules due-process federal-court-rules federal-statutes fifth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds tax-court Whether an Order of the United States Tax Court is deemed final, and legally enforceable, including enforcement on jurisdictional grounds, when the U.…
21-409 Anthony Italo Provitola, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction appellate-rules article-iii circuit-court civil-procedure federal-rules judicial-review procedural-rules standing summary-judgment tax-court Whether the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal have the power to override federal statutory appellate rules with their decision to render unappeal…
20-1726 Roy J. Meidinger v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-procedure contract contractual-relationship federal-claims-court iRS-jurisdiction jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-relief-and-healthcare-act-of-2006 tax-whistleblower whistleblower whistleblower-claims The questions presented for review, deal with aspects of a single subject matter reference, The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, Pub. L. 109 —4…
20-1472 Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2021-04-21 Judgment Issued Amici (6) claim-processing-rule equitable-tolling internal-revenue-code jurisdiction jurisdictional-requirement tax-court tax-law time-limit Whether the time limit in Section 6330(d)(1) is a jurisdictional requirement or a claim-processing rule subject to equitable tolling.
20-1267 Ronald E. Byers v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2021-03-12 Denied Response Waived certiorari certiorari-writ circuit-split decision-finality finality fraud-exception fraud-on-the-court jurisdictional-statute post-decision-motions post-decision-relief tax-court When the Supreme Court of the United States denies a taxpayer a certiorari writ in a case begun in the United States Tax Court, 26 U.S.C. § 7481(a)(2)…
19-1343 In Re Edward Starling 2020-06-05 Rehearing Relisted (3) article-i article-i-court civil-procedure due-process income-tax-refund judicial-authority jurisdiction quasi-in-rem question-not-identified tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction title-26 (1) The Scope Of Complete Exclusive Jurisdictional Authority of the United States Tax Court Under Article I of The United States Constitution Upon Tit…
19-7580 Constantine Gus Cristo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 26-usc-7491 9th-circuit burden-of-proof credible-evidence federal-agent irs-restructuring-and-reform-act-of-1998 ninth-circuit statutory-interest tax-court taxpayer-rights unconstitutional-conduct The Fourth Amendment guarantees that the people shall have a right: "to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable s…
19-536 Bocilla Island Seaport, Inc., fka Highpoint Tower Technology, Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response Waived basis-adjustment deficiency-determination due-process partner-level partner-level-penalty partner-level-proceeding partnership-basis penalty penalty-imposition reasonable-cause statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure united-states-v-woods This Tax Court partner-level penalty jurisdiction case raises these four interrelated issues: 1) Should "each partner's outside basis [in his partner…
19-488 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-regulation certified-mail circuit-split common-law-mailbox-rule due-process-challenge irc-section-7502 mailbox-rule postmark statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-filing 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit incorrectly held, in conflict with precedents in the Third, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits, that under 26 CFR §301.750…
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 …
19-175 Brad S. Francis, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure-act agency-misconduct appellate-procedure due-process jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency personal-jurisdiction reasoned-opinion statutory-notice subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction The Eighth Circuit has departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings under Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 47(a) and, in so …
18A1313 Steven T. Waltner, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-14 Presumed Complete collateral-estoppel deficiency sanctions statute-of-limitations tax-court tax-return Question not identified.
18-1520 Michael A. Tricarichi, Transferee v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response Waived 9th-circuit federal-income-tax fraudulent-transfer internal-revenue-code irc-6901 state-law tax-court third-party-conduct transferee-liability Whether a tax court in applying fraudulent transfer principles for imposing transferee liability with respect to a taxpayer must utilize the fraudulen…
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure 1. Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency? 2. Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals properly co…
18-8507 Randall Jennette v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Third Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-1738 admiralty-law admiralty-maritime full-faith-and-credit maritime-contract relief-sought statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction tax-court Whether Tax Court, had subject mattter jurisdiction, under it's Admiralty/Maritime Jurisdictions. To grant Appellee, relief sought in the absence of …
18-1133 Henry J. Langer, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived 8th-circuit burden-of-proof civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence penalty-assessment tax-court tax-court-review tax-evasion tax-fraud tax-liability tax-penalties Whether Respondent has proved by clear and convincing evidence that Henry J. Langer is liable for the fraud penalty for the years 2011, 2012, and 2013…
18-1100 Wayne D. Ramsay v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Fifth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure deficiency deficiency-interest interest internal-revenue-service jurisdiction statutory-interpretation tax tax-court tax-law DOES THE U.S. TAX COURT HAVE JURISDICTION TO DETERMINE DEFICIENCY INTEREST ASSESSED BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE?
18-1003 Norma L. Slone, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Ninth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review clearly-erroneous fact-finding factual-findings judicial-procedure standard-of-review tax tax-court tax-court-deference Whether a court of appeals may reverse a fact-dependent ruling of the tax court without articulating any standard of review, finding that any of the t…
18-6128 Norman Douglas Diamond v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue District of Columbia 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fraud irs irs-corruption jurisdiction jurisdictional-notice overpayment-refund statutory-guarantee statutory-notice tax tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-deficiency tax-evasion tax-fraud Former IRS employees have been for fraud and embezzlement of income tax withholdings originally collected legally. The IRS still does not credit petit…
18-51 Brad Francis, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Eighth Circuit 2018-07-10 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit jurisdictional-review personal-jurisdiction standing subject-matter-jurisdiction tax tax-court This is a call for the Court to exercise its supervisory power over the lower courts: Specifically, this case seeks review of the Eighth Circuit Court…