U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2015

Gina Brasher Langley v. Internal Revenue Service

Gina Brasher Langley v. Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · Decided August 12, 2015

Gina Brasher Langley v. Internal Revenue Service

Opinion

Case: 15-10791 Date Filed: 08/12/2015 Page: 1 of 2

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ________________________ No. 15-10791 Non-Argument Calendar ________________________ Agency No. 27396-12

GINA BRASHER LANGLEY, Petitioner-Appellant, versus INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Respondent-Appellee.

________________________ Petition for Review of a Decision of the U.S.Tax Court ________________________ (August 12, 2015) Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, MARCUS, and WILLIAM PRYOR, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM: Case: 15-10791 Date Filed: 08/12/2015 Page: 2 of 2

Gina Brasher Langley filed a request with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for innocent spouse relief under I.R.C. § 6015(f). The Commissioner denied her request. Langley filed a petition with the Tax Court for review of the Commissioner’s decision. The Tax Court dismissed her petition. This is her appeal of that dismissal. We review the Tax Court’s legal conclusions de novo and its factfindings for clear error. See Ocmulgee Fields, Inc. v. Comm’r, 613 F.3d 1360, 1364 (11th Cir. 2010).

On June 23, 2011, the Commissioner mailed Langley a final determination letter that denied her request for innocent spouse relief. She had 90 days from the day the letter was mailed to file a petition in the Tax Court for review of the Commissioner’s decision. I.R.C. § 6015(e)(1). She did not file a petition for review until November 9, 2012, over 500 days after the Commissioner mailed the final determination letter. Her petition for review was untimely. The Tax Court did not err in dismissing it.

AFFIRMED.

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