Legal Opinion
United States v. Mazzeo
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 23, 2004No. CIV.A. 98-3060-WGYPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, District Judge. 1
In this case equity and common sense war against the needs of the IRS, in a largely voluntary tax system, ruthlessly to grind down tax cheats. So it is that the IRS, by manipulating penalty and interest payments, can use a decades old tax debt (the principal of which has been fully paid and then some) to evict an innocent widow and her son from the family home.
This case concerns the conveyances by a husband, Salvatore J. Mazzeo (“Mazzeo”), to his wife, Mary Ellen Margaret Mazzeo (“Mrs. Mazzeo”), of a home, of money used for substantial construction…
2Cases cited52 opinions
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- United States v. BessSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Slodov v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
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