Fitzgerald Truck Parts and Sales, LLC v. United States of America
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2:19-cv-00008
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July 21, 2023
Jury Lets Co. Off Hook For $400M In Tax On Restored Trucks
A truck company doesn't owe roughly $400 million in excise taxes, penalties and interest for its refurbished tractors after a Tennessee federal jury concluded that the overhauled vehicles were eligible for a safe harbor providing an exemption from the tax.
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September 28, 2020
$64M Glider Truck Tax Row Needs More Discovery, Court Says
A Tennessee federal court said it can't yet rule on the applicability of a safe harbor from a new tractor excise tax to a truck company's glider tractors because more discovery is needed in a $64 million dispute.
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June 24, 2020
Truck Co. Urges Court To Reject IRS' $64M Excise Tax
A truck company that sells refurbished highway tractors urged a Tennessee federal court to find the company's glider trucks eligible for a safe harbor and reject an $64 million excise tax assessment by the Internal Revenue Service.
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July 16, 2019
$64M Truck Excise Tax Suit Against IRS Can Proceed
A seller of refurbished semitrucks can proceed with claims that the IRS abruptly changed course on the treatment of the glider truck industry in a suit to recover $64 million in tractor-trailer excise taxes, a Tennessee federal court has ruled.
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February 07, 2019
IRS Wrongly Levied $64M Tractor Truck Tax, Tenn. Court Told
A truck company that sells refurbished highway tractors told a Tennessee federal court the Internal Revenue Service made a mistake in its $64 million excise tax assessment because it failed to apply a safe harbor math test.