Wallis v. CIR, 7463.
| Decision Date | 11 March 1966 |
| Docket Number | No. 7463.,7463. |
| Parties | Marvin E. WALLIS, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Tenth Circuit |
Julie M. Reardon, Denver, Colo., for petitioner.
Gilbert E. Andrews, Washington, D. C. (Richard M. Roberts, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, I. Henry Kutz and Donald W. Williamson, Jr., Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.
Before LEWIS and HILL, Circuit Judges, and STANLEY, District Judge.
This is a petition for review of a decision of the Tax Court sustaining the Commissioner's determination of income tax deficiencies and penalties for the taxable years 1953 and 1954. Venue for review having been stipulated by the parties, jurisdiction is conferred upon this court by section 7482 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. The decision of the Tax Court is premised entirely upon the presumptive correctness of the Commissioner's assessment and the complete failure of the taxpayer to show error in the determination. A decision may be so premised. Welch v. Helvering, 290 U.S. 111, 54 S.Ct. 8, 78 L.Ed. 212; Anson v. Commissioner, 10 Cir., 328 F.2d 703; 9 Mertens, Law of Federal Income Taxation § 50.61, p. 158-59.
Petitioner's contentions in this court all flow directly or indirectly from the unfortunate fact that taxpayer appeared pro se in the proceedings before the Tax Court. But such an appearance, whether by choice or circumstance, does not lessen the impact of applicable rules. Rushing v. Commissioner, 5 Cir., 214 F.2d 383. And see Murphy v. Citizens Bank, 10 Cir., 244 F.2d 511; Barnes v. United States, 9 Cir., 241 F.2d 252.
Pointing to the fact that the notice of deficiency as reproduced in the present record sets forth no supporting data for the conclusion of a tax deficiency, petitioner argues that the Commissioner's determination was arbitrary upon its face and relieved him of the burden of showing error. The contention is indeed strained. The exhibit was that of petitioner and shows that the notice was accompanied by three enclosures including the customary "statement." If the supporting statement was faulty in law or fact, it was incumbent upon taxpayer to include the statement with his exhibit and so contend. His omission cannot be used to present advantage.
Nor did the taxpayer sustain his affirmative burden of showing error in the Commissioner's determination by his general and completely conclusionary testimony of error....
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