ACCOUNTING METHODS
See also INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Change of-Sec. 481 Adjustment-Incorporation of Sole Proprietor- ship as Cessation of Business.-Where as result of change of accounting in 1968 from cash to accrual method utilizing procedure in Rev. Proc. 67-10 as amplified by Rev. Proc. 70-16, sec. 481 required net adjustment to be taken into income over 10-year period, and in 1970 petitioners incorporated their proprietorship but continued to report adjustment on their personal returns, Court determined that petition- ers by incorporating their sole proprietorship, ceased their trade or business within meaning of revenue procedures and as result were required to bring remaining amount of adjustment into income in year of incorporation and not over remainder of 10-year period. Shore v. Commissioner
Completed Contract Method-Legal Fees in Negotiating Long-Term Contracts-Year Deductible.-Legal fees, incurred in negotiating and drafting specific long-term contracts which were later entered into by petitioners' subch. S corporation which used completed contract method of accounting, under sec. 451(a), regs., and case law were not currently deductible but were deductible in taxable year of corporation in which contracts were completed. McMaster v. Commissioner
Imputed Interest Deduction-Corporate Transaction as Sale with Deferred Payment-Contingent Upon Exercise of Put or Call.—Where X and Y corporations agreed to form new Z corporation, with X contributing assets and liabilities of one of its divisions for stock and debentures of Z, and Y contributing cash for Z stock; X had right to put its Z stock to Y on set terms during 8/1/70-7/31/71, and Y had right to call X's stock in Z on same terms during 8/1/71-7/31/72; and X exercised its put 7/31/71, Court determined 1968 agreement did not constitute sale with deferred payment of X's entire interest in its division with result that Y was not entitled to deduction for imputed interest for fiscal year ended 1/1/72, under sec. 483. Penn-Dixie Steel Corp. v. Commissioner ...
Failure to File Returns and Withhold Tax-Reasonable Cause.- Court having determined herein that payments from 1963-69 by petitioner corporation to its Icelandic parent were interest within meaning of secs. 1441 and 1442 on which petitioner was liable for 30% tax it failed to withhold on such payments, petitioner carried burden of showing sec. 6651(a) addition to tax for failure to file for 1963-68 United States Annual Returns for Income Tax to Be Paid at Source required by sec. 1461 did not apply, since certified public accountant's advice on necessity of filing returns, while erroneous, was not so clearly wrong as to permit inference petitioner was negligent or willfully disregarded law. Coldwater Seafood Corp. v. Commissioner
Late Filing-Corporate Income Tax Returns-Reasonable Cause.- Sec. 6651(a)(1) penalties were properly imposed where petitioner corporations' president signed requests for extensions of time on 5 of 6 returns required to be filed for taxable years and hired attorney and accounting firm to file returns, since record did not support finding that late filing was due to reasonable cause, considering that general rule is that filing of return when due is personal, nondelegable duty of taxpayer, and reliance upon accountant or attorney to file is no excuse for late filing, and that narrow exception to rule is limited to situation where taxpayer relies upon professional advice as to question of law. Latham Park Manor, Inc. v. Commissioner.
Negligence or Intentional Disregard of Rules and Regulations- Family Trust as Tax Avoidance Scheme-Burden of Proof.-On facts and absent any evidence by petitioner on this issue, Court determined Commissioner did not err in determination that any part of underpay- ment was due to negligence or intentional disregard of rules and regulations within meaning of sec. 6653(a), since considering petition- er's education and intellectual ability, Court found it difficult to believe that he envisioned family trust as anything other than flagrant tax avoidance scheme. Wesenberg v. Commissioner
Monthly Payments-Decree of Separate Maintenance-Support or Discharge of Principal Sum Obligation.-(1) $400 monthly payments to W under decree of separate maintenance based on extreme cruelty, including those awarded retroactively, were periodic payments under sec. 71(a)(3) on account of family or marital relationship in recognition of general obligation to support and were not in discharge of obligation specified as principal sum in decree, (2) $1,125 paid by H in restitution of amount by which W overpaid her fair share of taxes was not includable in W's gross income under sec. 71(a), since payment resulted from W's rights under contract with H rather than from his general obligation of support, and (3) amount paid by H for interest was includable in W's gross income and deductible by H under sec. 163(a). Capodanno v. Commissioner
Pollution Control Facilities-Certification Requirement-Validity of Election.-Where petitioner corporation acquired pollution control facilities and stated on its tax return for fiscal 1972 that it elected to amortize expenditure therefor under sec. 169, but at time of filing return had not applied for certification of such facilities, Court determined election was invalid, since regs. were promulgated under specific legislative authority and were not "unreasonable and plainly inconsistent with the revenue statutes," and implicit requirement that such application must have been made goes to essence of statute and cannot be dismissed as mere procedural detail. Penn-Dixie Steel Corp. v. Commissioner .
See also SMALL BUSINESS CORPORATIONS.
Stockholders' Advances-Wholly Owned Corporation-Capital Con- tribution or Loan.—Where petitioners advanced funds to their wholly owned corporation represented by unsecured demand notes, Court determined advances were contributions to capital and not loans which became uncollectible in fiscal 1970, since inter alia advances were for operating expenses and expansion of business, petitioner testified that due to poor financial condition of corporation he foresaw possibility advances would not be repaid, due to character of notes only source from which advances might be repaid was from future profits of business, and petitioner's primary concern was future success of corporation. Davis v. Commissioner ....
Corporate Assets-Acquired in Liquidation of Subsidiary-Sec. 334(b)(2) Computation.-Where after filing of opinion herein (T.C. Memo. 1977-23), parties submitted conflicting computations of tax under Rule 155 which involved interpretation of regs. under sec. 334(b)(2), and basic disagreement involved manner in which to compute basis in former corporation's assets which necessitated making refinements to petitioner corporation's adjusted basis in stock and allocating resulting basis among acquired assets, Court, using residual method, determined petitioner's refined adjusted basis in stock, calculated fair market value of intangibles received in liquidation, and provided and applied formula for allocating refined adjusted basis to certain assets. R. M. Smith, Inc. v. Commissioner
Securities-Computation of Gain or Loss-Adequate Identification of Lots.- Where petitioners, who sold securities acquired in different lots and at different prices, identified securities on their ledger sheets but did not deliver to transferees specific certificates representing such securities, Court determined (1) petitioners failed to adequately identify securities in compliance with reg. 1.1012-1(c)(2), with result that bases in securities sold were to be determined using FIFO method,
and (2) petitioners failed to show Commissioner acted arbitrarily in reconstructing their incomes using such method. Kluger Associates, Inc. v. Commissioner
Sale of Stock-Acquired for Business or Investment-Capital or Income. Where petitioner bank purchased stock of X corporation from which it obtained credit information, stock ownership was not prerequisite to obtaining X's services, and acquisition of stock had no appreciable effect on bank's methods of seeking credit information, Court determined that even though petitioner had significant business motive in acquiring stock, it also had substantial investment motive, so that Corn Products doctrine was inapplicable and stock constituted capital asset. W. W. Windle Co. v. Commissioner, 65 T.C. 694. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago v. Commissioner
Stock Transfer-Gift Tax Paid by Donees-Net Gift or Part Sale. Where petitioner made gifts of securities for benefit of her grandchildren to trusts which were required to pay all gift taxes resulting from transfers and did so by borrowing funds for such purpose, Court determined petitioner did not realize taxable gain in amount of difference between gift taxes paid and her basis in securities transferred. Turner v. Commissioner, 49 T.C. 356, followed; Johnson v. Commissioner, 59 T.C. 791, distinguished. Estate of Henry v. Commis- sioner
Stock Transfer-Guaranty Obligation in Corporate Transaction- Capital or Ordinary Loss.-Where petitioner corporation, party to transaction involving revamping of capital structure of X corporation in which petitioner held 55 percent stock interest, as part of such transaction contributed some of its shares to capital of X, also warranted net worth of X as of given date to third party which made substantial investment in X, and in satisfaction of warranty gave up all its remaining shares in X, Court determined on facts and under case law that petitioner's loss in respect of its shares was capital loss under secs. 1221 and 1222, and not ordinary loss under sec. 165. Fred H. Lenway & Co. v. Commissioner
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE
See INCOME and NET OPERATING LOSS.
COMMUNITY PROPERTY
See ESTATES AND TRUSTS.
COMPENSATION
Stock Issued for Promotional Services-Subject to Restrictions— Realization of Income. Where petitioner held 5,000 shares of stock issued for promotional services and under California permit, which imposed restrictions that had significant effect on stock value, Court
determined (1) stock was stock subject to restrictions significantly affecting its value, rather than second class of unrestricted stock, for purposes of regs. 1.61-2(d)(5) and 1.421-6(d)(2)(i); (2) restrictions imposed under California securities laws are "restrictions" within meaning of such regs. (Frank v. Commissioner, 54 T.C. 75, distin- guished on ground that securities law restrictions therein did not have significant effect on value); and (3) on facts restrictions imposed by permit were terminated in 1968, so that petitioner realized ordinary income. Bayley v. Commissioner CONSOLIDATED RETURNS
See NET OPERATING LOSSES. CONTRIBUTIONS
See also ESTATES AND TRUSTS and INCOME.
Charitable-Private Fund and Other Organizations-Charitable Purpose.-Commissioner properly disallowed (1) petitioner's claimed carryovers and current contributions to Special Appointment Fund, which petitioner contended was extension of his ministry, absent evidence of distributions to unrelated needy and on evidence showing that proceeds were used to pay for petitioner's automobile and daughter's college education, and (2) other contributions made to organizations as to which petitioner offered no evidence that they were organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes, except $20 substantiated contribution to conference of church recognized as qualified charitable organization. Boyer v. Commissioner
Charitable-Qualification of Religious Organization-Burden of Proof.-Petitioners were not entitled to any deduction for contribu- tions made to religious organization formed by them, since they failed to carry burden of proving that organization was operated exclusively for religious purposes, no part of net earnings of which would inure to benefit of any private shareholder or individual, considering that upon dissolution (occurrence wholly within petitioners' control) its assets would revert to petitioners or they would have ultimate authority over their disposition. Calvin K. of Oakknoll v. Commissioner
Charitable-Stock Basis in Excess of Fair Market Value-Measure of Deduction.-Petitioners' charitable contribution deduction for corporate stocks donated to qualified charity with bases for gain or loss in excess of fair market value was limited under sec. 170 and regs. to fair market value of shares, contrary to petitioners' contention that unrealized depreciation in stock value was deductible as charitable contribution. Withers v. Commissioner CORPORATIONS
Intercorporate Transfers in Consolidated Bankruptcy Proceedings- Controlling Shareholder-Dividend Equivalence.-Where in consoli- dated proceeding for ch. XI arrangement under Bankruptcy Act, proceeds from sale of assets of 3 corporations were used to pay off
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