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By Henry E. Hildebrand, III, Chapter 13 Standing Trustee for the Middle District of Tennessee (Nashville)
Mallo v. Internal Revenue Service, 774 F.3d 1313 (10th Cir. December 29, 2014). A debtor’s filing of an untimely 1040 tax return form, filed after the Internal Revenue Service has already assessed a tax liability, is not a tax return for purposes of § 523(a)(1).
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In consolidated cases, the debtors did not file tax returns for the years 2000 and 2001 which led to the Internal Revenue Service involuntarily assessing taxes in 2005. The Internal . . .
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