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Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Secret Withdrawals Of Corporate Receipts By Stockholders As Income In Absence Of Surplus, Kenneth H. Haynie S.Ed. Dec 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Secret Withdrawals Of Corporate Receipts By Stockholders As Income In Absence Of Surplus, Kenneth H. Haynie S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

As sole stockholder of the Robbins Tire and Rubber Company, the defendant managed and controlled the affairs of the corporation. Over a period of years he intercepted the company's receipts from several of its large customers and diverted them to his own use. No entries of such receipts were made on the books of the company, nor was any tax paid on them. Defendant was convicted for attempted evasion of his personal income tax on these funds. On appeal, held, affirmed. Taxation is concerned with actual command over property: If does not matter whether defendant got the funds as …


Federal Income Taxation Of Subdivided Realty-The Impact Of Section 1237 On Capital Asset Characterization Jul 1956

Federal Income Taxation Of Subdivided Realty-The Impact Of Section 1237 On Capital Asset Characterization

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxations: Marital Deduction For Life Estates, Richard G. Birmingham Apr 1956

Taxations: Marital Deduction For Life Estates, Richard G. Birmingham

Buffalo Law Review

Estate of Edward F. Pipe v. Comm 'r, 23 T. C. No. 14 (Oct. 22, 1954).


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Automobile Received As Prize In Sales Agency Drawing Not Income, Arthur M. Wisehart S.Ed. Apr 1956

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Automobile Received As Prize In Sales Agency Drawing Not Income, Arthur M. Wisehart S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

An automobile agency, as a means of publicizing its new models, advertised that it would give a new car to one of the persons visiting its showroom on a certain day. When plaintiff visited the showroom on the day specified, an employee of the agency took her name, wrote it on a slip of paper, and deposited it in a barrel. Plaintiff's name was drawn from the barrel and she received the automobile. Plaintiff did not include the value of the prize in computing her gross income for tax purposes, and a deficiency was assessed against her. Unsuccessful in her …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Damages For Injury To Business As Return Of Capital Or Income, Eric Bergsten S.Ed. Apr 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Damages For Injury To Business As Return Of Capital Or Income, Eric Bergsten S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The taxpayers, owners of two movie theatres, recovered $36,000 in a compromise settlement of a Clayton Act suit against the major distributors and exhibitors. The taxpayers claimed that the amount received was a return of capital. The Commissioner claimed the amount received represented the recovery of lost profits. Held, Commissioner upheld. The evidence presented did not warrant a finding that any part of the sum recovered represented a return of capital. Chalmers Cullins, 24 T.C. 322 (1955).


Taxation - Liens -Priority Of A Subsequent Federal Tax Lien Over An Antecedent Inchoate Lien, John B. Huck S.Ed. Apr 1956

Taxation - Liens -Priority Of A Subsequent Federal Tax Lien Over An Antecedent Inchoate Lien, John B. Huck S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this comment is to analyze the rationale, in terms of both statutory construction and policy, of the theory that only a choate garnishment lien is superior to a subsequent tax lien.


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Transportation Expenses Between Two Places Of Current Employment, George E. Ewing S.Ed. Mar 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Transportation Expenses Between Two Places Of Current Employment, George E. Ewing S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was employed as a high school principal by the city of Attleboro, Massachusetts, where he lived. He was also employed as an accounting instructor by Boston University, thirty-seven miles distant, two evenings a week for thirty-two weeks during the taxable year. He used his personal automobile to travel between the two cities and did not remain overnight in Boston. Neither employer expressly required him to incur any transportation expenses in connection with his teaching duties and there was no arrangement for reimbursement of transportation costs. The Tax Court affirmed the Commissioner's disallowance-- of a deduction for the automobile expenses …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Treatment Of Gains From Commodity Futures Transactions Of Manufacturing Consumer, Neil Flanagin S.Ed. Mar 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Treatment Of Gains From Commodity Futures Transactions Of Manufacturing Consumer, Neil Flanagin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Taxpayer, a manufacturer of products made from corn, purchased and sold corn futures contracts as a part of its regular buying program in order to protect itself against a possible shortage of raw materials. Taxpayer contended that the gains realized on these transactions should receive capital asset treatment. The Tax Court and the court of appeals held that the gains constituted ordinary income. On appeal, held, affirmed. The transactions, though not true hedges, were entered into for business purposes and as an integral part of taxpayer's operations. Consequently, they should be treated the same as hedges, and the gains …


Taxation--Tax Consequences Of Intra-Family Assignments, L. Fuhrman Martin Jan 1956

Taxation--Tax Consequences Of Intra-Family Assignments, L. Fuhrman Martin

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Tax-Free Sale Of A Business: Reorganizations, Spin-Offs, And Other Feats Of Magic Under The 1954 Code, Robert O. Swados Jan 1956

The Tax-Free Sale Of A Business: Reorganizations, Spin-Offs, And Other Feats Of Magic Under The 1954 Code, Robert O. Swados

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Taxable Status Of Business Tort Recoveries, Marvin I. Kelner Jan 1956

Taxable Status Of Business Tort Recoveries, Marvin I. Kelner

Cleveland State Law Review

More neglected perhaps than any other area of tax law that comes to the attention of the practicing lawyer is the taxability of damages. Damages, of course, represent the largest class of relief sought in the courts. This discussion will be limited to the taxable status of recoveries received from business torts, an area of much controversy today.


Instructions On Taxes In Personal Injury Suits, Lloyd J. Fingerhut Jan 1956

Instructions On Taxes In Personal Injury Suits, Lloyd J. Fingerhut

Cleveland State Law Review

The Internal Revenue Code enacted in 1954 has continued the 1939 Code provision of law that damages received, whether by suit or agreement, for personal injuries or sickness, are exempt from the Federal income taxation, by providing that such awards are specific exclusions from gross income. In light of this, many defense attorneys engaged in suits of such nature are asking the courts to instruct the jury of such provision, or in their closing arguments mentioning the same. The introduction of the provision in closing arguments has been the cause of many appeals and subsequent reversals due to prejudicial error.


Taxation Of Gains From Sale Of Livestock, Unharvested Crops, Timber, Coal & In-Oil Payments, W. Lewis Roberts Jan 1956

Taxation Of Gains From Sale Of Livestock, Unharvested Crops, Timber, Coal & In-Oil Payments, W. Lewis Roberts

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Purchase By Network Of Corporation Producing Entertainer's Radio Show As Compensation To Entertainer, Jerome K. Walsh, Jr. Jan 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Purchase By Network Of Corporation Producing Entertainer's Radio Show As Compensation To Entertainer, Jerome K. Walsh, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Prior to 1947, Jack Benny produced a complete radio show for his sponsor, American Tobacco Company. In January 1947 Amusement Enterprises was incorporated with Benny taking 60 percent of the stock and the remainder going to three of his business associates. Amusement contracted with American to produce a complete radio show, exclusive of Benny's services, to be broadcast over the NBC network on Sunday evenings. Benny signed a separate contract with American as the star of the show. Under the American-Benny contract American could make no change in the time of the broadcast or the network facilities without Benny's approval. …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Stockholder's Contractual Duty To Creditors To Finance Corporation As A Business For Purposes Of Bad Debt Deduction, Norman A. Zilber S.Ed. Jan 1956

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Stockholder's Contractual Duty To Creditors To Finance Corporation As A Business For Purposes Of Bad Debt Deduction, Norman A. Zilber S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1946 petitioner organized a wholly-owned corporation for the sole purpose of producing a single motion picture at the estimated cost of $175,000. He obtained loan commitments from two lending institutions for $170,000 in exchange for his agreement to increase the paid-in capital to $25,000 and to guarantee personally the financing of the completion of the picture should the budgeted funds prove inadequate. In addition, petitioner made further commitments to secure the institutions' loans. Eventually, $53,273.65 was advanced by petitioner to fulfill his obligations under the agreements. In 1948 the debt which the corporation owed him was deemed worthless and …