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Taxation-Debt Reduction, John M. Veale S.Ed.
Taxation-Debt Reduction, John M. Veale S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Inherent in an economy financed by a large volume of credit, extending over varying intervals of time, is the problem of debt reduction and revalorization. The ramifications of this problem in the income tax field have long intrigued legal scholars and confounded the courts. A recent case illustrates anew the danger, to client and counsel, lurking in the assumption that the tax significances of debt reduction have finally been reduced to mathematical certainty. The taxpayer borrowed $90,000 from a bank in 1925, using the funds to pay off encumbrances upon, and make improvements on, a piece of property. As a …
Taxation -Family Partnerships-Capital "Originating" With The Wife, Bayard E. Heath S.Ed.
Taxation -Family Partnerships-Capital "Originating" With The Wife, Bayard E. Heath S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In 1937 petitioner, P, gave his wife and sister each $2500 worth of stock in X Corporation. In 1940 he and A formed a partnership unrelated to the business of X corporation. Later in the year they decided to incorporate this partnership. Meanwhile, P desired to obtain all of the stock of X in order to take advantage of an opportunity to sell it to other interests at a substantial profit. His wife and sister gave him their shares in X for his promise to give them shares in the new corporation formed from the partnership of P and …