U.S. Supreme Court gives taxpayers more power to fight IRS - TopicsExpress



          

U.S. Supreme Court gives taxpayers more power to fight IRS summons. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that taxpayers have a right to challenge an Internal Revenue Service summons enforcement action in court when they can show the tax agency might have issued the summons in bad faith. The tax-collecting IRS argued taxpayers already have opportunities to challenge a summons, but the nine justices ruled in favor of a Florida man who demanded an evidentiary hearing about the motives of IRS officials for issuing a summons. Michael Clarke of West Palm Beach said the IRS issued a summons as retribution against him and his business partners for resisting an audit. In a nine-page opinion written by Justice Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court said: A taxpayer has a right to conduct an examination of IRS officials regarding their reasons for issuing a summons when he points to specific facts or circumstances plausibly raising an inference of bad faith. The case is United States v Clarke et al, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 13-301 (Reporting by Patrick Temple-West; Editing by Howard Goller and Grant McCool)
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:10:00 +0000

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