Around 30 years ago I was involved in an IRS court case. There was a clear abuse by both the auditor and their appeals. After an appeal they agreed with me and dropped it.
Then for pure meanness the appeals supervisor overturned his employee. I appealed to tax court and filed a FOIA request. They rejected my request saying that I couldn’t use that as a substitute for discovery.
I did some research and discovered just how powerful FOIA request was. I got the entire file including an embarrassing note from an employee begging them to stop my request.
Somehow it got moved to regular Federal court. I did not have an attorney but the U.S. Attorney phoned me, joked a little and told me they were dropping it.
Re: The U.S. Attorney phoned me, joked a little and told me they were dropping it.
Nice.
You don’t often hear about “happy endings” in Tax court.
NICE!