GEN MOTORS CORP. v. STATE TAX COMM.

Docket No. 158485.

200 Mich. App. 117 (1993)

504 N.W.2d 10

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION v. STATE TAX COMMISSION

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 7, 1993, at 10:25 A.M.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn (by Ronald S. Longhofer and Frederick M. Baker, Jr.), for General Motors Corporation.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Thomas L. Casey, Solicitor General, and Russell E. Prins and Ross H. Bishop, Assistant Attorneys General, for State Tax Commission.

Amici Curiae:

Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone (by Samuel J. McKim, III, Louis B. Reinwasser, and Joanne B. Faycurry), for City of Warren.

Collins, Blaha & Slatkin (by Gary J. Collins and Anne P. Schierloh), for Warren Consolidated Schools.

Before: GRIFFIN, P.J., and REILLY and FITZGERALD, JJ.


GRIFFIN, P.J.

This appeal stems from an attempt by plaintiff General Motors Corporation to avoid a property tax audit. In 1986, the City of Warren, acting under a belief that General Motors had been underreporting its taxable personal property, hired Plante & Moran, an independent accounting firm, to audit General Motors. Later, pursuant to a contractual arrangement with the city, the State Tax Commission hired Plante & Moran to go forward with the audit....

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