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Income Tax - Deductions For Facilitating Payments To Foreign Government Officials, Birney Bull Apr 2015

Income Tax - Deductions For Facilitating Payments To Foreign Government Officials, Birney Bull

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Indopco, Inc. V. Commissioner: National Starch Isn't The Only One "Stiffed" By The Supreme Court's Decision, Jeffrey Gates Davis Nov 2012

Indopco, Inc. V. Commissioner: National Starch Isn't The Only One "Stiffed" By The Supreme Court's Decision, Jeffrey Gates Davis

Pepperdine Law Review

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The Case For The Retention Of The State Death Tax Credit In The Federal Transfer Tax Scheme: "Just Say No" To A Deduction, John M. Janiga, Louis S. Harrison Nov 2012

The Case For The Retention Of The State Death Tax Credit In The Federal Transfer Tax Scheme: "Just Say No" To A Deduction, John M. Janiga, Louis S. Harrison

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.


Income Tax- Corporations-Legal Expenses Incurred In Sale Of Assets Pursuant To A Section 337 Liquidation Are Deductible-United States V. Mountain States Mixed Feed Co., Michigan Law Review May 1967

Income Tax- Corporations-Legal Expenses Incurred In Sale Of Assets Pursuant To A Section 337 Liquidation Are Deductible-United States V. Mountain States Mixed Feed Co., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

In 1961, the stockholders of the Mountain States Mixed Feed Co. voted to liquidate the corporation in such a way as to comply with the requirements of section 337 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Code). That section provides that if a corporation adopts a plan of complete liquidation, and then within twelve months distributes all its assets, it will not recognize a gain or loss for income tax purposes from the sale or exchange of certain types of property. The corporation sold all of its assets and qualified for non-recognition treatment under section 337. It then claimed a …


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Accrual Of State Property Taxes Paid Under Protest, Robert L. Harmon Jan 1962

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Accrual Of State Property Taxes Paid Under Protest, Robert L. Harmon

Michigan Law Review

During the years 1946 to 1950 a local tax upon respondent's real property was assessed at one hundred dollars. Respondent paid the full assessment to avoid interest penalties and seizure and sale of the property under tax liens, but contested the assessment in the state court, denying any liability greater than eighty-five dollars. In each of the preceding years, complying with a private ruling directed to it by the Commissioner, respondent had deducted the full one hundred dollars, and, when in 1951 the tax was fixed by the state court at ninety-five dollars, respondent included the five-dollar refund in its …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Seminar Cruise As Business Expense, Thomas W. Van Dyke Dec 1961

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Seminar Cruise As Business Expense, Thomas W. Van Dyke

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner, a physician, participated in a postgraduate medical seminar held aboard a passenger ship during an eighteen-day cruise of the Mediterranean. A number of hour-long lectures followed by discussion periods were held on the ship during each of the six or seven days it was at sea and occasionally while in port; additional study was not required. Petitioner spent most of his time in leisurely activities aboard ship and in sightseeing. All expenses of the course and cruise were included in one charge which petitioner claimed as an ordinary and necessary business expense under section 162 (a) . The Commissioner …


Taxation- Federal Income Tax - Deductible Contributions To Nonqualified Profit-Sharing Plans, Robert M. Steed Mar 1960

Taxation- Federal Income Tax - Deductible Contributions To Nonqualified Profit-Sharing Plans, Robert M. Steed

Michigan Law Review

In 1942 plaintiff employer adopted a profit-sharing plan under which a percentage of each year's profits was to be deposited in irrevocable trusts for distribution to its employees in succeeding years. The plan was not "qualified" under the Internal Revenue Code. Although under the terms of the trusts each employee's rights in the fund vested at the time the contribution was made by the employer, these rights would be forfeited by voluntary resignation prior to a fixed date. In 1945 plaintiff deducted the amount contributed to the trust in that year as a contribution to a non-qualified profit-sharing plan under …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax Deductibility Of Interest On Debentures Issues As A Dividend, Jules M. Perlberg Jan 1957

Taxation - Federal Income Tax Deductibility Of Interest On Debentures Issues As A Dividend, Jules M. Perlberg

Michigan Law Review

Taxpayer, a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation, had filed consolidated returns with its parent prior to 1934. When Congress abolished consolidated returns in that year, the subsidiary issued 6% debentures as a dividend to the parent company and subsequently deducted the interest paid on these bonds. The Commissioner claimed the interest payments were really dividends and were not deductible. The Tax Court upheld the Commissioner pointing out the tax-saving motive, absence of new investment, and parent-subsidiary relationship as factors indicating that no genuine debtor-creditor relationship existed. On appeal, held, reversed. The debentures involved were conventional in form and created a valid …


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 - Deductibility Of Expenses Incurred By Attorney In Attending Tax Institute, John E. Riecker S.Ed. Jan 1954

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Expenses Incurred By Attorney In Attending Tax Institute, John E. Riecker S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was a member of a firm of lawyers engaged in general practice in Binghamton, New York. The firm did enough work in federal taxation to warrant petitioner's specializing in this field, and his partners relied upon him to keep abreast of all significant developments in tax law. Petitioner attended the Fifth Annual Institute on Federal Taxation, conducted in New York City under the sponsorship of New York University and designed exclusively for practitioners and specialists in the tax field. He incurred expenses for travel, board, lodging, and tuition, all of which he deducted as ordinary and necessary business expenses …


Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility By An Employee Of Sum Paid In Settlement Of Claim Arising From His Operation Of Automobile Used In Company's Business, Richard B. Barnett S.Ed. Dec 1953

Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility By An Employee Of Sum Paid In Settlement Of Claim Arising From His Operation Of Automobile Used In Company's Business, Richard B. Barnett S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner and one Elkins were employed by a corporation which they had organized to engage in the electrical contracting business. They furnished their own automobiles to transport men and material from job to job, and were reimbursed by the corporation for operating expenses. The corporation also paid for insurance and repairs of the automobiles. While Elkins was using petitioner's car to drive two employees to a job in progress, a collision occurred causing personal injuries to the two employees, who recovered a judgment against petitioner which he finally settled by payment of $4,000 in excess of the amount of the …


Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Accounting For Money Mistakenly Received Under A Claim Of Right, Allan Neef Jun 1951

Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Accounting For Money Mistakenly Received Under A Claim Of Right, Allan Neef

Michigan Law Review

The plaintiff taxpayer, as the general manager of a manufacturing corporation, received a bonus of approximately $22,000 for the 1944 calendar year, pursuant to a percentage-of-net-profits bonus arrangement. In 1946, a state court found that this bonus had been erroneously computed, and that the terms of the agreement only called for a payment to the plaintiff of about $11,000 for the prior year. As a result of this adverse judgment, the plaintiff repaid the excess to the corporation, and filed an amended tax return and a timely claim for a refund of the prior tax on such amount with the …