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James Rodney LARGENT, Petitioner-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.
    No. 12-71686.
    United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
    Submitted May 13, 2014.
    
    Filed May 29, 2014.
    James Rodney Largent, Phoenix, AZ, pro se.
    John A. Dicicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Gilbert Steven Rothenberg, Esquire, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Robert Joel Branman, I, Esquire, Joan I. Oppenheimer, U.S. Department of Justice, William J. Wilkins, Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, for Respondent-Appellee.
    Before: CLIFTON, BEA, and WATFORD, Circuit Judges.
    
      
       The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   MEMORANDUM

James Rodney Largent appeals pro se from the Tax Court’s summary judgment permitting the Commissioner of Internal Revenue (“Commissioner”) to proceed with a collection action for tax year 2005. We have jurisdiction under . 26 U.S.C. § 7482(a)(1). We review de novo, Johnston v. Comm’r, 461 F.3d 1162, 1164 (9th Cir.2006), and we affirm.

The Tax Court properly granted summary judgment because Largent failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact as to whether the Commissioner’s determination that the collection action should proceed was unsupported. See Hansen v. United States, 7 F.3d 137, 138 (9th Cir.1993) (per curiam) (discussing summary judgment standard and explaining that a Form 4340 Certificate of Assessments and Payments is probative evidence and, in the absence of contrary evidence, shows that notices and assessments were properly made); see also 26 U.S.C. § 6330(c) (matters addressed at a hearing concerning a Notice of Intent to Levy). Contrary to Largent’s contention, his tax liability for 2005 was not discharged in bankruptcy because Largent filed his 2005 tax return less than two years before he filed his bankruptcy petition. See 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(1)(B) (excepting from discharge a liability for an income tax if a required return was filed late and less than two years before the filing date of the petition).

Largent’s contentions that the Tax Court acted in excess of its jurisdiction and that there is no basis for his tax liability are unpersuasive.

AFFIRMED. 
      
       This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.