The Supreme Court this week denied granting a rehearing to an 82-year-old woman who is embroiled in a battle with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), although Justice Neil Gorsuch signaled that he would want to rehear the case.
The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases each year and denies the vast majority of them. In January, the high court turned away Toth’s appeal over a $2.1 million penalty that the IRS imposed on Toth after she didn’t report a foreign bank account.
On Monday, the Supreme Court again turned away her case (pdf), with Gorsuch writing: “The petition for rehearing is denied. Justice Gorsuch would grant the petition for rehearing.” It means that a lower court ruling will stand and that Toth will have to pay the penalty….