Do U.S. Tax Court Judge Attributes Affect Corporate Tax Dispute Outcomes?

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2021
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Moser, William
Lindsey, Brad
McDonnell, Sophie
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Corporate taxpayers can have economically meaningful disputes with the IRS that ultimately involve the federal judiciary. In an attempt to reduce the number of corporate tax disputes going to trial and reduce the amount of time between when corporate taxpayers file a petition with the U.S. Tax Court and resolution of the case, politicians and judges have placed greater emphasis on negotiated settlements as opposed to Tax Court trials. In this paper, we investigate whether the personal attributes of the Tax Court judge assigned to the case (political ideology, professional experience, and tenure on the bench) influence corporate taxpayers and the IRS to reach a negotiated settlement or to proceed to trial. Overall, our results show that Tax Court judges who are conservative, have private practice experience, have governmental legislative experience, and have longer tenure on the Tax Court bench are more likely to preside over disputes resolved through a negotiated settlement as opposed to going to a trial.
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Taxpayer case resolution, Tax Court Judge, Settlement vs Trial
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