Source: https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2019/02/camp-new-thinking-about-jurisdictional-time-periods-in-the-tax-code.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 09:05:59+00:00

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Tax law is notoriously insular. For example, even as courts evolved their approach to reviewing agency regulations in general, they continued to embrace a special rule for the review of Treasury Regulations until the Supreme Court instructed otherwise in 2011 in Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research v. United States. Since that time, tax law has only haltingly abandoned old thinking about judicial review of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and only tentatively embraced the new thinking.
This article considers how the Supreme Court’s new thinking about statutory time periods should apply to the three most common time periods in the Tax Code that govern access to the Tax Court: the period in §6213 for contesting a Notice of Deficiency (NOD); the periods in §6320 and §6330 for contesting the outcome of an IRS Collection Due Process (CDP) hearing; and the period in §6015(e) for contesting a denial of innocent spouse relief. Both the Tax Court and most Courts of Appeals seem stuck on the old thinking. It’s time to change that.
Part I gives a brief overview of the Supreme Court’s new thinking. Part II then considers how that thinking should apply to each of the three periods. Contrary to existing lower court case law, Part II concludes that for the deficiency and CDP time periods, the new thinking leads to different conclusions from the old. The lower court cases have simply blindly followed old precedent without reconsidering the validity of that precedent. As to the spousal relief time period, however, Part II concludes that the two recent Circuit Court opinions on the issue have reasonably applied the new thinking in typing §6015(e) as jurisdictional.

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