I gratefully acknowledge the information I received from reader izxyz, with the link to the Tax Court website’s carefully concealed results of the November 8, 2023, examination for admission to United States Tax Court for non-attorneys.

This is found halfway down the Guidance for Practitioners page.

But since those taking the examination, whether they passed or failed, are not practitioners, why that information should be placed on that page, and not issued as a Press Release, eludes me.

Surely Ch J Kathleen (“TBS = The Big Shillelagh”) Kerrigan should join with the Swan of Avon and make these results a “motley to the view.”

How appropriate this examination was given on the 81st anniversary of the North African landings (Operation Torch). Fortunately the Allies did much better than those who took the examination.

And, of course a Taishoff “Well Done” to those who passed.

Edited to add: By my admittedly imperfect arithmetic (lawyers can’t add, y’know), the cumulative passing rate over the twelve (count ’em, twelve) examination cycles from and including 2000 to and including 2023 is 12.53%; IOW, of every eight candidates in a 23-year period, only one succeeded. Slaughter of the Innocents, indeed.