The Supreme Court seemed generally sympathetic to the claim of the wife of a delinquent taxpayer that the IRS had gone too far in her case in secretly summonsing third-party bank records.
Throughout the hearing on March 29, the justices acknowledged the Internal Revenue Service needs tools to pursue delinquent accounts but suggested that potential abuses need to be guarded against.
The IRS claims Remo Polselli owes $2 million in assessed taxes and penalties and issued summonses without notice seeking financial records from banks. His bank records as well as those of his wife, Hanna Polselli, and law firms that performed work for them were sought….