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ESTATE

AND GIFT TAX LAWS

CORRELATED

Being a Correlation of the Income, Estate and Gift Tax Provisions of the Internal
Revenue Code Currently in Effect during Each of the Years 1944 to 1949,
Inclusive, with Amendments Applicable to Such Years Shown in Differ-

ent Type, and Also Showing the Year of Origin of Each Such Section

and the Section and Act in Which It Originated. Cross Refer-

ences to the Pages of the Author's Second, Eighth and Ninth

Editions Correlating Similar Provisions of the Various
Revenue Acts and the Code from 1913 to 1943,
Inclusive, Are Also Given, Thereby Enabling
the Reader to Trace Immediately the
Legislative History of Any Given
Section from 1913 to 1949. Ad-

ministrative Provisions of

the Code in Effect from

1944 to 1949 with

Amendments

Are Also
Included.

BY

WALTER E. BARTON

Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Continental Building, Washington, D. C.

TENTH EDITION

TAX LAW PUBLISHING COMPANY

CONTINENTAL BUILDING

1511 K STREET, N. W.

WASHINGTON 5, D. C.

1950

L34796

AUG 4 1950

FORMER COPYRIGHTS

1925, 1938 and 1944

RESERVED

BY

WALTER E. BARTON

COPYRIGHT, 1950
BY

WALTER E. BARTON

PREFACE TO TENTH EDITION

The Second Edition, correlating the Income and Estate Tax Provisions of the Revenue Acts of 1913 to 1924, was published in January, 1925; the Eighth Edition, correlating the Income Tax Provisions of the Revenue Acts of 1926 to 1938 and the Estate Tax Provisions of the Revenue Acts of 1916 to 1926, as amended between 1926 and 1938, was published in November, 1938; and the Ninth Edition, correlating the Income, Estate, and Gift Tax Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code in effect during 1939 to 1943, was published in January, 1944.

Between 1913 and 1938, the period covered by the Second and Eighth Editions, there were fourteen different Revenue Acts-a new law for approximately each two years. During that period, Congress re-enacted the entire Income Tax Provisions in each Revenue Act, with the exception of the Revenue Acts of 1935 and 1937, which were merely amendatory. Likewise, the Estate Tax Provisions were re-enacted in their entirety in the Revenue Acts of 1916 to 1926. There were approximately 305 amendments of the Income and Estate Tax Provisions during this 26-year period. The re-enactment of the entire law about every two years rendered it comparatively easy for taxpayers to ascertain exactly what the law was during any given year.

Since the enactment of the Internal Revenue Code on February 10, 1939, however, Congress has pursued an entirely different policy. From 1939 to 1943, the five-year period covered by the Ninth Edition, there were 737 different amendments, an average of 147 each year, 577 being retroactive for periods ranging up to approximately four years. This same policy of amending the Code has continued during the subsequent years 1944 to 1949, the six-year period covered by the new Tenth Edition, as there have been 380 amendments since January 1, 1944, a large number of which are retroactive for several years.

Only a small number of the amendments since February 10, 1939 have been made by re-enacting the amended sections in their entirety. Most of them have been made by striking out language and inserting other language, the consequence of which has been that taxpayers were required to make the necessary eliminations and substitutions.

The result of so many amendments of the Code in such patchwork fashion has been to cause unnecessary confusion. This has been accentuated by the method employed by Congress in scattering the various amendments of a particular section of the Code throughout the entire amending act, instead of including all of them in one place. For instance, Section 22 was amended 22 times between February 10, 1939 and December 31, 1943. Eighteen of these amendments were made by

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