With the aforementioned hereinabove set forth words (as my already-on-their-second-Grey-Goose-Gibson colleagues would say), taken from Tax Court’s prologue to its most recent issue, I inquire after the whereabouts of the results of the 11/8/2023 admissions exam for nonattorneys, which I’ll once again call The Slaughter of the Innocents.

For those who missed my previous posting on the subject, refer to the above link for the results from the current millennium to 2021. Note that COVID moved the 2020 exam to 2021, hence the shift from even-numbered biennial cycles to odd-numbered.

The Tax Court website has had a link for the past several weeks wherewith those who entered upon that perilous voyage can ascertain their success. So The Glasshouse Gang must know at least who has passed. And I can’t think the ExamSofties, who administer the nonattorney exam, would have any reason to withhold the bare numbers.

Yet, for whatever reason, the number of those who took the exam, and the number of those who passed, has not yet been revealed.

In my capacity as a journalist, I made a written request for the information, to which I received no response. I followed up with a telephone request, to which I was told I would receive an answer. None yet.

So I ask again, “for public benefit,” how many candidates for nonattorney admission took the examination, and, of those, how many passed the examination?