A tax whistleblower said an appeals court should rehear his case because a three-judge panel improperly deferred to Treasury Department regulations when it concluded the IRS didn’t owe him an award.
Michael Lissack filed his petition asking for a rehearing from the panel or, alternatively, from a wider slate of judges at the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The panel ruled May 26 that Lissack wasn’t entitled to an award under tax code Section 7623(b)(1) because the IRS ordered the condominium development group that Lissack had targeted to pay more taxes under a separate tax issue from ...
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