US Supreme Court Declines to Rehear Case of Woman Fighting IRS

Justice Gorsuch again breaks with court, signals he would hear case

The Supreme Court held a special sitting on September 30, 2022, for the formal investiture ceremony of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States/Getty Images

The Supreme Court this week denied granting a rehearing to an 82-year-old woman, Monica Toth, who is embroiled in a battle with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), although Justice Neil Gorsuch signaled that he would want to rehear the case.

The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases each year and denies the vast majority of them. In January, the high court turned away Toth’s appeal over a $2.1 million penalty that the IRS imposed on Toth after she didn’t report a foreign bank account.