Key legal question
Whether the direct filing with the tax court had to be treated as a spring appeal against the revision decision.
Extracted holding
Yes. Because the revision decision referred only to appeal and complaint remedies, and the legally represented taxpayer deliberately bypassed objection, the filing was to be accepted as a spring appeal/spring complaint.
Extracted reasoning
It would be excessively formalistic to reject the filing. The taxpayer knowingly waived objection, the legal notice named only appeal/complaint, and doctrine questions the usefulness of forcing an objection after a full revision procedure.