An order will be entered granting respondent's motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.
LAUBER,
The following facts are derived from respondent's motion, the exhibit attached thereto, and publicly available records of the State of California. Urgent Care Nurses Registry, Inc. had a corporate address in California at the time the petition was filed.
Petitioner was incorporated in California on July 21, 2005, and was assigned a taxpayer identification number by the California Franchise Tax Board (board). On August 1, 2008, the board suspended petitioner's corporate charter pursuant to
Petitioner filed some income and employment tax returns for 2009 through 2013 but enclosed no payments. It failed to file other returns, and the IRS pre-pared substitutes for returns (SFRs) that met the requirements of
Petitioner timely requested a collection due process (CDP) hearing, and a settlement officer (SO) was assigned to the case. In June 2015 the SO informed petitioner's representative: "The revenue officer's case history indicates that Urgent Care Nurses Registry, Inc. may no longer be in business. You/your representative told the revenue officer that the business is now2016 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 197">*199 being operated under the EIN of [a] sole proprietorship." The SO requested copies of documents "confirming the dissolution of the corporate entity." Petitioner's representative submitted a copy of Form 966, Corporate Dissolution or Liquidation, and a certi-ficate of dissolution of petitioner.
A telephone CDP hearing was held on June 26, 2015, and the SO requested followup documentation by August 3, 2015. Having received none of the requested documentation by August 18, 2015, the SO closed the case and, on August 28, 2015, issued petitioner a notice of determination sustaining the proposed levy.
On September 28, 2015, petitioner timely sought review in this Court. On July 28, 2016, respondent filed a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, contending that the petition was not filed by a party with capacity to sue under
In California, the board may suspend the "powers, rights[,] and privileges of a domestic taxpayer" if the corporation fails to pay "any tax, penalty, or interest, or any portion thereof, that is due and payable" at specified times.
*202 Petitioner's corporate powers were suspended in August 2008, and it has supplied no evidence that it has since received a certificate of revivor or become current on its California tax obligations. The California secretary of state confirmed in July 2016 that petitioner's corporate powers "remain suspended." Documentation submitted to the SO by petitioner's representative indicates that petitioner has been formally dissolved and that the business it formerly conducted is now being conducted by a sole proprietorship. For these reasons, we find that petitioner lacked the capacity to litigate at the time it filed its petition in this case.
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1. All statutory references are to the Internal Revenue Code in effect at all relevant times, and all Rule references are to the Tax Court Rules of Practice and Procedure. We round all monetary amounts to the nearest dollar.↩