BUSH v. U.S.

No. 2012-5051.

717 F.3d 920 (2013)

Gordon W. BUSH, Reola Bush, Lawrence R. Catuzzi, Barbara V. Catuzzi, Gordon R. Cooke, Jennifer L. Cooke, Gopala K. Derebail, Memalatha Derebail, Albert V. Gude, Donna C. Gude, Lawrence S. Lewin, Robert V. McQuillan, Catherine D. McQuillan, Kikuo Nakahara, Jeanette T. Nakahara (Deceased), Leslie A. Spitzack, Mary C. Spitzack, Barry S. Strauch, and Evelyn M. Strauch, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

May 30, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Redding , Redding & Associates, P.C., of Houston, Texas, argued for plaintiff-appellant. With him on the brief was Sallie E. Gladney .

Bethany B. Hauser , Attorney, Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, of Washington, DC, argued for defendant-appellee. With her on the brief were Kathryn Keneally , Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Farber , Attorney.

Before RADER, Chief Judge, NEWMAN and MAYER, Circuit Judges.


NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The appellants are nineteen individual taxpayers who were partners of the Denver-based Dillon Oil Technology Partnership in tax years 1983 and 1984. In 2003, after over a decade of litigation, the IRS assessed penalties in accordance with now repealed I.R.C. § 6621(c), which penalizes "substantial" underpayments of tax "attributable to tax motivated transactions" ("TMTs"). The appellants paid the tax and penalties in 2004, and, in 2006...

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