The Tax Court in Brief – December 26th – December 30th, 2022
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Tax Litigation: The Week of December 26th, 2022, through December 30th, 2022
Luu v. Comm'r, T.C. Memo. 2022-126| December 28, 2022 | Weiler, J. | Dkt. No. 714-20W
Short Summary: The story of this 22-page opinion regards a whistleblower's (Felix Luu, referred to herein as Luu) contest of the Whistleblower Office's (WBO) determination and calculation of a whistleblower award related to Luu's family's business operations, which included a retail supermarket and a poultry farm (the Companies).
Luu served as the general manager of the retail supermarket and was an equal shareholder with his six siblings in the Companies. WBO acknowledged receipt of Luu's application for whistleblower award and Forms 211, Application for Award for Original Information. In a lawsuit filed in state court, Luu alleged causes of action against the Companies to compel the payment of a dividend, claiming that Luu had only recently learned that he had received a lesser dividend than other shareholders and that the other shareholders had been skimming profits from the Companies. The Companies' six shareholders (excluding Luu) filed voluntary disclosures with the IRS....
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