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Case 1:96-cv-00074-FMA

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS _______________ No. 96-74T (Judge Allegra) COLUMBIA/HCA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. THE UNITED STATES, Defendant. _______________ JOINT STATUS REPORT _______________ IN RESPONSE to this Court's Order dated March 8, 2006 requiring the parties to report on the status of settlement on or before April 7, 2006 and every 28 days thereafter, the parties present the following joint status report: 1. The only issue remaining in this case is the completion of the computations of

plaintiff's tax liability with respect to the 1991 taxable year at issue in this case. 2. On October 12, 2004, HCA Inc. (plaintiff's successor) proposed to the Internal

Revenue Service ("IRS") a streamlined computational methodology to compute the nonaccrual experience method exclusion for all taxable periods prior to and pending before this Court and the Tax Court. On February 8, 2005, plaintiff provided computations to the IRS of the tax liability using this methodology for each of the 31 taxable periods involved, including its 19891991 taxable years. On May 2, 2005, the IRS requested revised computations. HCA provided the IRS with the requested computations for its 1989-1991 taxable years on November 4, 2005. 3. As noted in joint status reports to be filed with the Tax Court on June 2, 2006, the

IRS has advised the plaintiff that an additional seven to ten months will be necessary to complete

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its computational review for all of the 31 taxable periods involved (i.e., by the end of the first quarter of 2007). 4. On May 16, 2006, the IRS provided the plaintiff with audit procedures for

completing its review of plaintiff's tax computations for the 31 taxable periods. The IRS has not yet advised the parties in this case when its review of the tax computations for plaintiff's 19891991 taxable years will be completed. 5. Assuming the IRS accepts the computations that HCA provided on November 4,

2005, final tax computations for the 1991 taxable year should be complete. 6. Pursuant to the Court's Order dated March 8, 2006, the parties will file a status

report 28 days subsequent hereto, except that the parties will nonetheless advise the Court as soon as the parties have agreed to the tax computations with respect to plaintiff's 1991 taxable year. 7. Report. Respectfully submitted, Defendant's counsel has authorized plaintiff's counsel to file this as a Joint Status

/s/ Felix Laughlin Felix B. Laughlin DEWEY BALLANTINE LLP 1775 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 (202) 862-1040 (202) 862-1041 (fax) email: [email protected] Counsel for Plaintiff June 2, 2006

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