Opinion
33931-21 34013-21 34450-21
05-31-2024
YUDHA GUNAWAN, ET AL., Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
ORDER
Mark V. Holmes, Judge
These consolidated cases were on the March 4, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada trial calendar. We continued them all once before in the hope of settlement, but there has been little progress, and we lacked even contact information for petitioners. When the case was called none of petitioners appeared. Their accountant, who holds a power of attorney for them that enables him to work on the cases with the IRS but is not a member of the Tax Court bar, left last-minute word on the undersigned's answering machine that he was too sick to come to court for the calendar call.
Respondent said at calendar call that he now believes some of the petitioners have left the country. And he reiterated that in the nearly three years since the cases began, there has been little progress. Counsel, rather than IRS Appeals, now has these cases, and it is clear that more intense pretrial management is needed. We therefore issued an order to show cause requiring petitioners to give the Court their current contact information.
They have now done so, and each petitioner also moved without opposition to proceed with these cases remotely since none of them still live in Nevada.
It is therefore
ORDERED that the Court's March 8, 2024 order to show cause is discharged. It is also
ORDERED that petitioners' April 5, 2024 motions to proceed remotely are granted and these cases shall proceed remotely. It is also
ORDERED that the undersigned no longer retains jurisdiction of these cases. .