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· 11/30/1984

Dudley J. Godfrey, Jr., Appellant/cross-Appellee v. United States, Appellee/cross-Appellant

Citations

  • 748 F.2d 1568
  • 55 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 409
  • 1984 U.S. App. LEXIS 15309

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the United States Claims Court had allowed the case to proceed after each plaintiff paid “the amount in excess of income and FICA taxes with- held from one employee”
  • noting that the United States Claims Court had allowed the case to proceed after each plaintiff paid $150.00 to the IKS, “the amount in excess of income and FICA taxes withheld from one employee”
  • listing check-signing authority, day-to-day fiscal management, ability to pay creditors, control over voting stock, inter alia, as indicia of authority
  • defining responsibility in terms of a person's \power to compel or prohibit the allocation of corporate funds.\
  • \The mechanical duties of signing checks and preparing tax returns are ... not determinative of liability under Sec. 6672.\
  • failure to investigate when in possession of knowledge that taxes were unpaid is willful failure to pay

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Judges: Markey, Nies, Newman

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