Notices to Reopen Assessments Must Be Issued to the Correct, Living Person; Errors Are Not Mere Formalities.

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....The sine qua non for acquiring jurisdiction to reopen an assessment is that such notice should be issued in the name of the correct person. This requirement of issuing notice to a correct person and not to a dead person is not a merely a procedural requirement but is a condition precedent. - HC....