COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE v. MOLESWORTH


408 Mass. 580 (1990)

562 N.E.2d 478

COMMISSIONER OF REVENUE vs. JACK E. MOLESWORTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David G. Saliba for the taxpayers.

Thomas A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Revenue.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., NOLAN, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

The Commissioner of Revenue (commissioner) appeals from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) ruling that the taxpayers may direct the commissioner to apply partial payments for late taxes to their underlying tax liabilities. We transferred the case here on our own motion and now affirm.

Throughout the 1970's, Jack Molesworth suffered financial problems, due in part to the loss in a robbery, in 1971, of the entire inventory of his rare postage...

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