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WIEN AIR ALASKA, INC. v. DEPT. OF REVENUE

No. 5594.

647 P.2d 1087 (1982)

WIEN AIR ALASKA, INC., Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, STATE OF ALASKA, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Hume, Jr., of Keane, Harper, Pearlman & Copeland, and Ralph Stemp, Anchorage, for appellant.

Amy J. Stephson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, Wilson L. Condon, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ., and DIMOND, Senior Justice.

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

This appeal presents the central question of whether the Alaska Department of Revenue was bound by its interpretation of a tax statute as stated in a letter sent to an accounting firm in reply to a request from the firm for general tax information. We hold that the department was not bound.

In 1973, Wien Air Alaska, Inc. (Wien) contracted to purchase two airplanes and other equipment for approximately fourteen million dollars...

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