diff --git a/tests/test_tax.py b/tests/test_tax.py
index 22705cd73f..e2f23db24e 100644
--- a/tests/test_tax.py
+++ b/tests/test_tax.py
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ def test_summarize_empty_gather_results(runtmp):
         fp.write("")
     print("g_csv: ", g_csv)
 
+    #test below is not working properly: assert statement needs to be moved outside of the with block, but exc.value is empty and im not sure why
     with pytest.raises(ValueError) as exc:
         #should fail
         runtmp.run_sourmash('tax', 'summarize', g_csv, '--taxonomy-csv', tax)