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 Whether a bankruptcy court's consent order limiting the IRS's tax collection rights is binding and preclusive in subsequent tax court proceedings
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 Whether 26 U.S.C. 6213(a) grants the Tax Court jurisdiction to review an untimely petition for redetermination of a tax deficiency?
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 Whether a state must include in its tax apportionment formula the factors of a business giving rise to income to be taxed, and whether factor represen…
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 Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the district attorney, court, and tax assessors conspired to deprive the petitioner of …
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 Whether West Virginia's refusal to allow natural gas producers to deduct actual post-production expenses for property tax purposes, which favors in-st…
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 Whether the petitioner's appearance at a tax sale violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process and equal protection clauses
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 Whether the IRS violated the petitioner's procedural due process rights in the tax collection and assessment process
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 Whether the 2005 Dodge Caravan was properly registered and inspected, whether Pennsylvania rebate laws apply to the property taxes on 316 Dawson Stree…
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 Whether the petitioner's 1996 pension funds were properly rolled over and should not have been taxed
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 Whether issuance of a Commissioner's order by ordinary mail meets constitutional requirements of procedural due process
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 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 the t…
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 differently when determining the assessment for the liability or penalty for a taxpayer versus a…
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 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 chal…
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 Whether the Internal Revenue Service's conduct falls within the tax assessment and collection exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act's waiver of imm…
19-8534 Robert W. Johnson v. Performant Recovery, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-23 Dismissed IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process jurisdiction standing tax-assessment Whether the Department of the Treasury had jurisdiction to assess taxes against the petitioner for IRS civil matters
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 Whether the Petitioner could be liable for the 2012 taxes as he was not the property owner on January 01, 2012
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 erred in holding that Petitioners' timely-filed tax return did not start the running of the 3-year statute of limitations on a…
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 Can the IRS/United States government Respondent and lower courts consistently call U.S. Supreme Court standing case precedent (stare decisis) on the d…
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 Did the lack of a meaningful review of the assessment and collection of a tax under the Convention violate Dewees' right to due-process?
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 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 litigants …
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 Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims related to due-process, civil-rights, standing, civil-procedure, takings, patent
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 Whether the appellant has the right to life, liberty, property and pursuit of happiness, the right to presumption of innocence, the right of contract,…
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 Does New York's assessment and collection of taxes within the Seneca Nation of Indians violate the treaty rights of the Seneca Nation?
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…