Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which gets rid of most debts, allows for an automatic stay.

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If the taxpayer misses the 30-day deadline, Congress' tax writers still allowed him an "equivalent" hearing but not an automatic stay.

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If he does, there is usually an automatic stay of the levy while he contests it, first at the IRS and then in Tax Court.

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Morelli, who said he was pleased Renault's future had been secured in F1, added that it was "not automatic" that Kubica would stay with the team.

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Cardiff City, Norwich City and Nottingham Forest are chasing the Swans as the Welsh hope to stay in the top two and secure automatic promotion to the top-flight after a 28 year absence.

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That efficiency will be crucial if the US is to stay on the boundary of its production possibility frontier in the face of automatic cuts in federal spending that began last month.

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It also gives victims permission to stay temporarily while they decide whether to help prosecute traffickers, by offering an automatic a "reflection period".

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