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Juan CAMPOS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 2014-1667.
    United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.
    Nov. 25, 2014.
    
      Juan Campos, Castroville, CA, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    Karen G. Gregory, Thomas J. Clark, Supervisory Attorney, Gilbert Steven Rothenberg, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before NEWMAN, DYK, and HUGHES, Circuit Judges.
   ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue moves to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction. Juan Campos opposes.

Juan Campos appeals from an order of the United States Tax Court dismissing his complaint for lack of jurisdiction. This court is a court of limited jurisdiction and does not have jurisdiction over this appeal. See 28 U.S.C. § 1295(a). The Commissioner states that the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit would have appellate jurisdiction in this case. See 26 U.S.C. 7482(a)(1) (“The United States Court of Appeals (other than the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) shall have exclusive jurisdiction to review the decisions of the Tax Court”).

Although the Commissioner argues against transfer, asserting the correctness of the Tax Court’s judgment, we deem it appropriate to transfer the appeal to the District of Columbia Circuit pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1631 (if a court finds there is a lack of jurisdiction, “the court shall, if it is in the interest of justice, transfer such action or appeal to any other such court in which the action or appeal could have been brought at the time it was filed or noticed”).

Accordingly,

it Is Ordered That:

The motion is denied and the appeal is transferred to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.