End 1962 Philippines Tax Raid Feud, IRS Urges to Appeals Court

A deceased couple’s 60-year-old legal feud with the IRS should come to a close because the couple gave no proof that the agency hid tax documents, nor did they show that those records would change the outcome of their case, the government told a federal appeals court in Washington.

Harry Stonehill’s estate accused the IRS of hiding boxes of records during its response to a Freedom of Information Act request the decedent made in 1998, alleging that the agency concealed evidence of wrongdoing in the early 1960s. A district court rejected that claim in 2008, but nearly 17 years later, ...