July 21, 2023
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.
September 28, 2020
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.
June 24, 2020
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.
July 16, 2019
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.
February 07, 2019
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.