Public relations gestures often backfire. Save the Besame Cosmetics Mickey Mouse Red Lipstick Rare and Discontinued and don’t put it on Empress of Blandings or her real-life counterparts. Pulled pork is better with Kansas City-style barbecue sauce.

So let it be with TBOR.

Michelle Y. Coe, Docket No. 14643-24, filed 11/20/24, didn’t get the word. With neither SND nor NOD, when IRS moves to toss her petition, she responds thus.

“The Tax Court is subject to the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights and has jurisdiction to provide limited financial relief or awards in specific scenarios. The respondent has provided no defense for failure to pay refunds or respond to the Petitioner’s Administrative Claim for Damage. However, they have identified that the Petitioner has no deficiencies. For that reason, the Plaintiff should be granted 10 million dollars for her Administrative Claim for Damage and the respondent’s violations of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights or an amount this court deems appropriate.” Order, at p. 3.

Please, before you yell that I’m piling on a hapless pro se, let me point out that IRS brought this upon themselves. The “Bill of Rights” is no more than a compilation of existing rights, adding nothing new. Even if IRS tried to expand the law, only Congress can make laws. And nothing Michelle has opens the doors at The Glasshouse on Second Street, NW, in the City in the Undrained Swamp.

The Taxpayer Bill of Goods marches on.