Key legal question
Whether the reassessment of the taxpayers for direct federal tax 1999/2000 was barred because no new facts existed.
Extracted holding
The company-related benefits were not known to the tax authority at the time of the taxpayers' original assessment and did not have to be known then; therefore new facts existed.
Extracted reasoning
The assessing officer was not required to wait for the company's assessment or conduct a full audit of the company. The taxpayers' stock ownership alone did not make their return obviously incorrect, and the authority could rely on the return absent clear errors.