June 1, 2007

Teaching Hospitals Score Tax Victory

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Teaching hospitals that have battled the Internal Revenue Service for years over whether they must pay millions of dollars in Social Security taxes for medical residents scored a key victory in May.

In a case involving Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida during the tax years 1996 through 1999, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled that a lower-court judge had erred in 2005 when he summarily accepted the government's argument that medical

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