Case Name: Edward R. DANOFF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2005-06-22
Citations: 135 F. App'x 950
Docket Number: No. 04-56060; D.C. No. CV-03-00945-JVS
Parties: Edward R. DANOFF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 135
Pages: 950–951

Head Matter:
Edward R. DANOFF, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 04-56060.
D.C. No. CV-03-00945-JVS.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted June 14, 2005.
Decided June 22, 2005.
Edward R. Danoff, Santa Ana, CA, pro se.
Richard G. Stack, Office of the U.S. Attorney Civil & Tax Divisions, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before KLEINFELD, TASHIMA, and THOMAS, Circuit Judges.
This panel unanimously finds this case suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
Edward Danoff, an attorney, appeals pro se from the district's order dismissing his complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Danoff filed a complaint seeking a refund of income taxes in the amount of $22,382, which he asserted he overpaid in connection with his 1996 federal income tax return. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo, Cement Masons Health & Welfare Trust Fund for No. Calif. v. Stone, 197 F.3d 1003, 1005 (9th Cir.1999), and we affirm.
The district court properly concluded that because Danoff did not file his claim for a tax refund within statutory three-year period, the refund claim was untimely under 26 U.S.C. § 6511(b). The district court therefore correctly concluded that it lacked subject matter jurisdiction over DanofPs tax refund action. See Imperial Plan, Inc. v. United States, 95 F.3d 25, 26 (9th Cir.1996) (affirming dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction where taxpayer failed to file a timely administrative tax refund claim under section 6511); Zeier v. United States, 80 F.3d 1360, 1364 (9th Cir.1996) (holding that § 6511(b)(2)(A) is jurisdictional).
Danoff contends that the IRS should be equitably estopped from denying his refund claim because a IRS agents told him during a telephone inquiry that he had four years to file his tax return. Section 6511, however, is not subject to equitable exceptions. See United States v. Brockamp, 519 U.S. 347, 354, 117 S.Ct. 849, 136 L.Ed.2d 818 (1997), ("Congress did not intend courts to read other unmentioned, open-ended, 'equitable' exceptions into the statute that it wrote."); see also Socop-Gonzalez v. INS, 272 F.3d 1176 (9th Cir.2001) ("[I]f a time limit is jurisdictional, it is not subject to the defenses of waiver, equitable tolling or equitable estoppel, although there may still be exceptions based on 'unique circumstances' ").
AFFIRMED.
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