United States Federal Circuit

In a case in which a taxpayer sought and was granted discovery of protected tax return information of non-parties, the government's petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Court of Federal Claims to vacate its order compelling disclosure is granted, where: 1) the Claims Court was generally without statutory authority to compel disclosure of confidential taxpayer information; and 2) an exception to the statutory prohibition for situations in which the treatment of an item reflected on the tax return is directly related to the resolution of an issue in the proceeding was inapplicable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/20/2012
• Published 01/20/2012

Judges

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Damon W. Taaffe, Daniel J. Dunn