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· 2/22/1996

Boles Trucking, Inc., Appellee/cross-Appellant v. United States of America, Appellant/cross-Appellee

Citations

  • 77 F.3d 236
  • 77 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 909
  • 1996 U.S. App. LEXIS 2626
  • 1996 WL 73958

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  • noting that the Commissioner’s determination of tax liability is presumed correct, and the taxpayer bears the burden of proving otherwise by a preponderance of evidence
  • rejecting taxpayer’s cross-appeal challenging that the district court erred by allowing the penalties imposed in the tax assessment
  • “[The court] start[s] with the well-established principle that the Commissioner’s determination of tax liability is entitled to a presumption of correctness and that the burden is on the taxpayer to prove that the determination is erroneous.”
  • this principle applies to determinations that a taxpayer's workers are employees
  • applying this standard to a worker classification determination
  • applying this standard to a worker classification determination

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Judges: Beam, Arnold, Jones

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