Stephanie Murrin v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

  1. October 17, 2025

    3rd Circ. Won't Rethink IRS Collections For Preparer Fraud

    The Third Circuit declined Friday to reconsider a panel decision allowing the IRS to pursue a woman's unpaid taxes more than 20 years later — well after the normal three-year deadline — because her return preparer committed fraud on her filings without her knowledge.

  2. August 18, 2025

    3rd Circ. Says IRS Can Pursue Taxes In Decades-Old Fraud

    The IRS can go after a woman's unpaid taxes more than 20 years later because her return preparer committed fraud on her filings, even though the woman did not mean to evade taxes, the Third Circuit ruled Monday.

  3. November 19, 2024

    IRS Can Extend Deadline Over Preparer's Fraud, 3rd Circ. Told

    The Third Circuit should affirm a U.S. Tax Court ruling allowing the Internal Revenue Service to skirt the normal deadlines and assess taxes going back to 1993 against a couple who were unaware that their tax preparer had falsified their returns to lower their liabilities, the government said.