Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Supreme Court Grants Cert in Two Tax Cases


Boulware v. United States (No. 06-1509): What effect must a federal court give a final, non-collusive state court judgment adjudicating ownership of property in determining a taxpayer’s federal income tax liability arising from that property?
Whether a taxpayer who seeks to invoke the return of capital rule in a criminal tax case must show a contemporaneous intent to treat the corporate distribution as a return of capital?

Meadwestvaco v. Illinois Dept. of Revenue (No. 06-1413): Is the attempt by Illinois to tax the approximately $1 billion gain realized by Petitioner when it sold its investment in Lexis/Nexis in 1994 (which it acquired in 1968 for $6 million and which functioned for 26 years as an independent, nonunitary business) in direct conflict with the decisions of the Court in Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation, 504 U.S. 768 (1992), F.W. Woolworth Co. v. Taxation & Revenue Department of New Mexico, 458 U.S. 354 (1982) and ASARCO Inc. v. Idaho State Tax Commission, 458 U.S. 307 (1982) and the Due Process and Commerce Clauses of the United States Constitution?

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