Eckert Cold Storage, Inc. v. Behl

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• holding plaintiffs could not recover interest paid to IRS for under payment of taxes
• noting that, in 24 professional negligence action, the proper measure of damages were those sufficient to place 25 plaintiffs in the position they would have occupied had the misrepresentations not occurred
• stating that “plaintiffs may be entitled to damages due to the tax liability, if they can prove that this liability was caused by [the defendant’s] negligent or fraudulent advice and would not otherwise have been incurred”
• stating that “plaintiffs may be entitled to damages due to the tax liability, if they can prove that this liability was caused by [the defendant’s] negligent or fraudulent advice and would not otherwise have been incurred”
• stating that “plaintiffs may be entitled to damages due to the tax liability, if they can prove that this liability was caused by [the defendant’s] negligent or fraudulent advice and would not otherwise have been incurred”
• noting that although IRS interest and back taxes generally are not recoverable as damages, where an accountant causes a taxpayer to incur tax liability that could have been avoided because of a failure to properly advise, the taxpayer should be awarded those taxes as damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).