Over at Procedurally Taxing, Leslie Book has a great update post on what’s going on in CIC Services v. IRS, since the Supreme Court remanded the case last Term. Here’s a snippet:

There are a few important issues at the intersection of tax procedure and administrative law that the court will address. For example, is the Notice a legislative rule under the APA, and if it is, do the regulations that allow the IRS to define reportable transaction through other IRB guidance satisfy the notice and comment requirements? (For brief background, see my post here.)

There is another issue that has received less attention in the tax community lurking in the CIC Services case. That issue pertains to the nature of the relief that a court can grant when it finds that the IRS (or another agency) has failed to comply with the procedural requirements under the APA. That gets to the scope of an injunction that a court may issue if it finds that CIC Services is correct on the merits.

The full post is here.