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· 3/21/1990

United States v. Dalm

Citations

  • 494 U.S. 596
  • 110 S. Ct. 1361
  • 108 L. Ed. 2d 548
  • 1990 U.S. LEXIS 1531

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that § 7422(a) requires a taxpayer seeking a refund to file a claim for a refund before filing suit to collect the refund
  • holding that a two-year limitations period bars recovery regardless of whether the tax is illegally collected
  • holding that plaintiffs’ refund suit was barred for failing to file a refund claim with the IRS
  • holding that a statute of limitations barred an untimely claim for a federal income tax refund, “regardless of whether the tax is alleged to have been ‘erroneously,’ ‘illegally,’ or ‘wrongfully collected’ ” (citations omitted)
  • holding that a taxpayer’s failure to file a timely tax return under 26 U.S.C. § 7422(a) deprived the district court of jurisdiction over the taxpayer’s claim for a tax refund
  • holding that equitable recoupment, without more, does not give court jurisdiction over refund claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Kennedy, Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, O'Connor, Scalia, Stevens, Brennan, Marshall

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