No. 18-1485

Michael Kansler, et ux. v. Mississippi Department of Revenue

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2019-05-29
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 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
Key Terms:
DueProcess Jurisdiction
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Mississippi's income tax refund statute of limitation is immune from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit and the internal consistency test when it produces actual double taxation of interstate income

Question Presented (from Petition)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Is Mississippi’s income tax refund statute of limitation immune per se from Commerce Clause scrutiny under Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady, 430 U.S. 274 (1977) and the internal consistency test when it produces actual, undisputed double taxation of its residents’ income earned in interstate commerce? 2. Does Mississippi discriminate against interstate commerce by permitting certain residents to recover overpaid income taxes well beyond the normal threeyear statute of limitations while denying other residents the same benefit, based exclusively on an interstate element or criteria, when that denial produces actual, undisputed double taxation of its residents’ income earned in interstate commerce? 3. Does Mississippi violate the Commerce Clause and Due Process Clause of the United States Constitution by failing to afford its resident taxpayers, when audited by a sister state, any preor post-deprivation mechanism to preserve their right to claim a credit for taxes paid to other states in order to avoid double taxation of income they earned in interstate commerce?

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-07-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-28
Waiver of right of respondent Mississippi Department of Revenue to respond filed.
2019-05-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 28, 2019)

Attorneys

Michael Kansler, et al.
John Floyd FletcherJones Walker LLP, Petitioner
John Floyd FletcherJones Walker LLP, Petitioner
Mississippi Department of Revenue
Bridgette Trenette ThomasMississippi Department of Revenue, Respondent
Bridgette Trenette ThomasMississippi Department of Revenue, Respondent