Legal Opinion
In Re: William Stoecker, Debtor
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 2, 1999No. 98-3590PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Posner, Chief Judge.
This bankruptcy appeal has a complicated procedural history that we shall ignore; the curious are referred to 151 B.R. 989 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1992); 179 B.R. 532 (N.D.Ill.1994), and 202 B.R. 429 (Bankr.N.D.Ill.1996). All that matters is that the bankruptcy court eventually disallowed Illinois’s claim against the debtor’s estate for some $900,000 in unpaid Illinois use tax (including interest), Ill.Rev.Stat. ch. 120, ¶ 439.12 (1989), which was owed on the purchase of a corporate aircraft. The current statute, 35 ILCS 105/12, has a narrower scope, but we shall cite to it because…
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