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Stock Received In Lieu Of Salary By Stockholder-Employees Whose Proportionate Interest Remains Unchanged Is Taxable Income--Commissioner V. Fender Sales, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Stock Received In Lieu Of Salary By Stockholder-Employees Whose Proportionate Interest Remains Unchanged Is Taxable Income--Commissioner V. Fender Sales, Inc., Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Transactions involving forgiveness by stockholder-employees of corporate indebtedness are shrouded in legal uncertainty. The conflicting positions espoused by the Commissioner, the Tax Court, and the circuit court in the principal case focus attention on a few salient problems. The Commissioner, in arguing that the receipt of stock by the individual taxpayers constituted taxable income, considered the individuals solely as employees, believing it immaterial that they were also stockholders. Thus, he reasoned that when they, as employees, received stock in payment of their accrued salaries, they realized income. In contrast, the Tax Court viewed the individual taxpayers as stockholders who had …
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Retroactive Application Of Uniform Principal And Income Act, Thomas E. Kauper S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Retroactive Application Of Uniform Principal And Income Act, Thomas E. Kauper S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The trustee of a trust created prior to the 1957 enactment of the Uniform Principal and Income Act petitioned for instructions as to whether a stock dividend received by it subsequent to the passage of the act should be allocated to principal or income. The Uniform Act provides a rule for the treatment of stock dividends contrary to the judicial rule previously adopted in Wisconsin, and is expressly made applicable to trusts existing on its date of enactment. The county court, finding the act could not be constitutionally applied to trusts created prior to its enactment, ordered the allocation of …
Trusts - Construction - Distinction Between "Stock Dividends" And "Stock Spit" For Allocation Purposes, Roger W. Findley S.Ed.
Trusts - Construction - Distinction Between "Stock Dividends" And "Stock Spit" For Allocation Purposes, Roger W. Findley S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In 1918 a settlor created two identical trusts, the corpus of each consisting of 300 shares of General Electric no-par common stock. The income was to go to life beneficiaries, and at their deaths the principal was to revert to the settlor or his residuary estate. The trust instrument directed the trustee to transfer to the settlor or his executor, "free of all trusts hereby created, any and all stock dividends .... " In 1954 the corpus of each trust included 1200 shares of G.E. no-par stock with a stated value of $6.25 per share, there having been two stock …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Corporate Accumulations, Stock Dividends And The "Preferred Stock Bail-Out," And Taxability Of The Corporation Upon The Distribution Of "Inventory Assets" Under The Internal Revenue Code Of 1954, Alice Austin S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
It is the purpose of this discussion to indicate, with respect to corporate accumulations and distributions, some of the major interpretative problems existing under the 1939 code which Congress has failed to resolve, as well as some of the major interpretative difficulties which arise for the first time under the 1954 code.