MATTER OF SOTELO

No. 76-1429.

551 F.2d 1090 (1977)

In the Matter of Onofre J. SOTELO and Naomi Sotelo, Bankrupts.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided March 24, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce L. Balch, Rock Island, for appellant.

Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tax Div., Gilbert E. Andrews, Chief, Appellate Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Donald B. Mackay, U. S. Atty., Springfield, Ill., Robert J. Kauffman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Peoria, Ill., for appellee.

Before BAUER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


BAUER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Onofre J. Sotelo contends that the district court erred in not discharging in bankruptcy a liability imposed upon him under 26 U.S.C. § 6672 for failing to account to the government for taxes withheld from the wages of the employees of the corporation of which he was chief executive officer. The question on review is whether the liability is a nondischargeable tax or a dischargeable penalty.

Sotelo does not challenge his...

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