Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Over IRS Bank Summons Notice

The US Supreme Court agreed to hear a case over whether the IRS needed to notify bank account holders when it summoned their records to collect on a different taxpayer’s liabilities.

Hanna Karcho Polselli and two law firms brought the suit after the IRS seized their records without notification to try to collect on more than $2 million in tax liabilities for Polselli’s husband, Remo Polselli. The law firms—Abraham & Rose PLC and Jerry R. Abraham PC—had represented Remo Polselli.

In their petition to the high court, Hanna Karcho Polselli and the firms argued that the US Court of Appeals ...