In a recent Tax Court case, the Court determined that the 90-day deadline for filing a petition for redetermination of employment status is not jurisdictional and thus does not prevent the Court from hearing the case.[1] While an all-too-familiar statute pertaining to the jurisdiction of the Tax Court to hear a matter has generally been…
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Recently, there seems to have been a higher number of cases than usual coming down from courts regarding Tax Court jurisdictional issues. My colleague Parker Durham covered a few of them in a recent article.[1] In a recent case out of the Court of Federal Claims, yet another jurisdictional issue arose.[2] In the present case,…
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Taxpayers who are issued a notice of deficiency by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) have ninety (90) days from the date such notice of deficiency is mailed to file a petition with the Tax Court for a redetermination of the deficiency.[1] Last year, the Tax Court dismissed several cases for lack of jurisdiction when the…
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