TIFD III-E, INC. v. U.S.

Docket No. 10-70-cv.

666 F.3d 836 (2012)

TIFD III-E, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Nelson ( David J. Curtin , James D. Bridgeman , on the brief), Bingham McCutchen LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellee.

Francesca U. Tamami , Tax Division, Department of Justice ( John A. DiCicco , Gilbert S. Rothenberg , Kenneth L. Greene , Tax Division, Department of Justice, Nora Dannehy , United States Attorney, District of Connecticut, on the brief), for Appellant.

Before: LEVAL, CABRANES, and SACK, Circuit Judges.


LEVAL, Circuit Judge:

This appeal requires us to examine for the second time the propriety of a partnership's allocation (for tax purposes) of virtually all of its taxable income to two ostensible partners, both foreign banks, which are not subject to tax by the United States. The issues on appeal are (1) whether the foreign banks qualify as partners in the partnership under Internal Revenue Code ("I.R.C.") § 704(e)(1), and (2), if not, whether a penalty was...

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