Reports of the Tax Court of the United States, Volume 34U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accounts receivable Adler Corporation agreed agreement amount annuity assets bad debt bank basis bonds Boston Yanks Brook Stevens capital gain cash cent claimed Company computed contract cost Court death decedent December 31 deduction deficiency determined director dividends Docket earnings excess profits excess profits tax expenses fence controllers filed fiscal year ended follows funds garden tractors Glunts gross income Hedwig held hereinafter Hospital Hugo included income tax income tax returns interest Internal Revenue Code inventory issue Janet January January 31 joint June June 30 Keizer Klumb lease liabilities loan loss ment Montgomery Ward net income Niederkorn October 31 operating ordinary income paid parties partnership patent payments peti petitioner petitioner's policies prior production purchase purpose rental reserve residents respect respondent respondent's salary section 722 sell shares sold stipulated supra taxable taxpayer tion tioner transaction trust Zietz
Popular passages
Page 461 - partnership" includes a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or other unincorporated organization, through or by means of which any business, financial operation, or venture is carried on, and which is not, within the meaning of this title, a trust or estate or a corporation; and the term "partner" includes a member in such a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or organization.
Page 103 - ... rentals or other payments required to be made as a condition to the continued use or possession, for purposes of the trade or business, of property to which the taxpayer has not taken or is not taking title or in which he has no equity...
Page 592 - All the ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on any trade or business, including a reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation for personal services actually rendered; traveling expenses (including the entire amount expended for meals and lodging) while away from home in the pursuit of a trade or business...
Page 273 - To the extent of any interest therein of which the decedent has at any time made a transfer, by trust or otherwise, where the enjoyment thereof was subject at the date of his death to any change through the exercise of a power, either by the decedent alone or in conjunction with any person, to alter, amend? or revoke...
Page 19 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Page 19 - This is not the substitution of the will of the judge for that of the legislator, for frequently words of general meaning are used in a statute, words broad enough to include an act in question, and yet a consideration of the whole legislation, or of the circumstances surrounding its enactment, or of the absurd results which follow from giving such broad meaning to the words, makes it unreasonable to believe that the legislator intended to include the particular act.
Page 670 - There shall be allowed as a deduction any loss sustained during the taxable year and not compensated for by insurance or otherwise.
Page 307 - Whenever In the opinion of the Commissioner the use of Inventories is necessary In order clearly to determine the Income of any taxpayer, inventories shall be taken by such taxpayer upon such basis as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may prescribe as conforming as nearly as may be to the best accounting practice in the trade or business and as most clearly reflecting the Income.
Page 959 - ... intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment at or after his death, or of which he has at any time made a transfer, by trust or otherwise, under which he has retained for his life or for any period not ascertainable without reference to his death or for any period which does not in fact end before his death...
Page 318 - capital assets' means property held by the taxpayer (whether or not connected with his trade or business), but does not include — "(A) stock in trade of the taxpayer or other property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close of the taxable year, or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business...