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Full-Text Articles in Tax Law
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Worthless Debt Of Corporation Deductible Only As A Nonbusiness Bad Debt By Creditor-Partnership, Larry W. Waggoner
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Worthless Debt Of Corporation Deductible Only As A Nonbusiness Bad Debt By Creditor-Partnership, Larry W. Waggoner
Michigan Law Review
A partnership formed for the purpose of holding and renting real estate and "such other business and enterprises" as might be agreed upon by the partners loaned 120,000 dollars to a corporation which manufactured liquid hair spray for women. This was the only loan the partnership had made. The controlling shareholder in the debtor-corporation was another corporation of which every shareholder was either a parent or grandparent of the partners. The debtor-corporation was to repay the loan in monthly installments of 3,000 dollars plus interest at the rate of twelve percent on the unpaid balance. When the debt became worthless, …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Liquidation Distributions Entitled To Both Capital Gains Treatment And Foreign Tax Credit, Lloyd C. Fell
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Liquidation Distributions Entitled To Both Capital Gains Treatment And Foreign Tax Credit, Lloyd C. Fell
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, Associated, is an American corporation whose wholly-owned subsidiary, Automatic, owned all the stock of Filcrest, a Canadian corporation. In 1954 all the assets of Filcrest were distributed to Automatic pursuant to a plan of complete liquidation, accomplished in accordance with Canadian law. In its 1954 consolidated return, plaintiff treated the gain realized on the Filcrest liquidation as a capital gain, and also claimed a foreign tax credit for any Canadian income, war or excess profits taxes which Filcrest had paid over the years to Canada on that part of the liquidation distribution which represented Filcrest's accumulated earnings and profits. …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Transfers Of Mineral Rights In Soil Deposits As Lease Or Sale, Philip Sotiroff
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Transfers Of Mineral Rights In Soil Deposits As Lease Or Sale, Philip Sotiroff
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner executed a written agreement with a contractor in 1954 whereby the contractor acquired the right to enter petitioner's land and extract sand and gravel for a fixed amount per cubic yard. This agreement was terminated in 1955 when the excavations had reached the desired level of street access. Petitioner had entered into a previous oral agreement in 1949 with a different party for the sale of the gravel on the same land down to the same elevation, but that party had not fully exploited the agreement. Petitioner claimed that the agreements were sales of sand and gravel in place …
Taxation-Federal Income Taxation-Examination Of Certain Problems Under Section 335, Roger B. Harris S.Ed.
Taxation-Federal Income Taxation-Examination Of Certain Problems Under Section 335, Roger B. Harris S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Stock and securities of controlled corporations may be distributed to shareholders, tax free, in cases of corporate separations which qualify under section 355 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. A corporate separation is effected by the transfer of part of a corporation's assets to a subsidiary, the stock of which is distributed to the parent's stockholders. Such distributions are generally classified into three categories: spin-off, split-off, and split-up. A spin-off occurs when corporation A forms corporation B to which A transfers certain assets, receiving in exchange, the stock of corporation B. A then distributes the stock of …
Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-The Construction Of Section 2036, William S. Bach S .Ed.
Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-The Construction Of Section 2036, William S. Bach S .Ed.
Michigan Law Review
This comment will explore two problems: first, an analysis of the legislative history of the present section 2036 in an effort to discover exactly which property relationships Congress intended to reach by this provision; second, an examination of the treatment which several specific arrangements have been given by the courts to determine whether there is any degree of certainty or predictability in the application of section 2036.
Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-Inference Of Retained Life Interest Under Section 2036(A), Donald E. Vacin
Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-Inference Of Retained Life Interest Under Section 2036(A), Donald E. Vacin
Michigan Law Review
In 1936 decedent established an irrevocable trust naming herself and relatives as beneficiaries. The corporate trustees were directed to pay the trust income, in the exercise of their absolute discretion, either to the settlor or to the other beneficiaries. In filing her 1936 federal gift tax return settlor attempted unsuccessfully to exclude the value of a life estate in the trust income, allegedly retained by her. At her death, the value of the trust corpus was not included in her estate tax return. The Commissioner assessed a deficiency contending that decedent-settlor had retained for her life the "possession or enjoyment" …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Religious Order Not Exempt From Supplment U Tax As A Church, Alan Rothenberg
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Religious Order Not Exempt From Supplment U Tax As A Church, Alan Rothenberg
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a non-profit, membership corporation consists of members of the Christian Brothers Order, and was established to furnish religious and secular education to youth. The Catholic Church considers religious instruction to be the performance of a church function, and property of the Christian Brothers Order is church property according to Roman Catholic canon law. During the taxable years in question plaintiff owned and operated a novitiate, Catholic schools, homes for the Brothers, and a winery and distillery. Plaintiff was assessed and paid $489,800.83 as a Supplement U tax on its unrelated business income realized from the winery and distillery operation. …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Insurance Agreements, Robert A. Butler S.Ed.
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Insurance Agreements, Robert A. Butler S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Contracts indemnifying persons or corporations for losses and damage resulting from an interruption of business due to strikes have existed at least since the beginning of this century. The Mutual Security Company of Connecticut, for example, wrote such a policy for the Buffalo Forge on April 9, 1906. In more recent times, strike insurance agreements have been instituted in major industries, and their impact on collective bargaining has been the subject of some controversy. The purpose of this comment is to consider the federal income tax questions which arise from such arrangements. Specifically, attention is directed to the deductibility of …
Bankruptcy-Federal Tax Claims-Accrual Of Post-Petition Interest, Robert Lane
Bankruptcy-Federal Tax Claims-Accrual Of Post-Petition Interest, Robert Lane
Michigan Law Review
In 1953 taxpayer filed a petition and was discharged in bankruptcy owing federal withholding and social security taxes for 1951. In 1958 taxpayer became entitled to a refund on his 1953-1954 taxes. The Commissioner applied a portion of this ·refund against the balance of the tax for the year 1951, plus accrued interest to 1958. Taxpayer claimed that he was not liable for the interest which had accrued during the period between the date of petition in bankruptcy and the date of refund. When the Commissioner disallowed his claim, the taxpayer brought an action in district court to recover the …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Accrual Of State Property Taxes Paid Under Protest, Robert L. Harmon
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 - Capital Gain Treatment Of Amount Received From Sublessee By Lessee-Sublessor For Surrender Of Lease To Lessor, Paul Tractenberg
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Capital Gain Treatment Of Amount Received From Sublessee By Lessee-Sublessor For Surrender Of Lease To Lessor, Paul Tractenberg
Michigan Law Review
The lessor and the sublessee of a valuable piece of business property sought to remove the intervening interest of petitioner, the lessee-sublessor. Petitioner agreed to release to the lessor all his right and interest in the leasehold and in consideration therefor petitioner received a sum of money from the sublessee. The Tax Court decided in a deficiency proceeding that the entire amount should be taxed as ordinary income on the ground that it was merely a substitute for future rental payments. On appeal, held, reversed. Since the substance of the transaction was the transfer of the leasehold from the …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Deductibility Of Seminar Cruise As Business Expense, Thomas W. Van Dyke
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-Status Of Stock-For-Stock Exchange Where Boot Is Involved, Roger B. Harris S. Ed
Taxation- Federal Income Tax-Status Of Stock-For-Stock Exchange Where Boot Is Involved, Roger B. Harris S. Ed
Michigan Law Review
Taxpayer was the sole stockholder of International Dairy Supply Company. In 1952, Foremost Dairies, Inc. acquired from taxpayer all his stock in Supply Company in exchange for 82,375 shares of Foremast's common stock and 3,000,000 dollars cash. Taxpayer reported as gain from the transaction only the 3,000,000 dollars "boot" received, less allowable expenses. The Commissioner determined a deficiency of 278,823 dollars, asserting that the nonrecognition provision of the 1939 Code counterpart of section 356 (a) (1) was inapplicable and therefore taxpayer's entire gain realized on the disposition must be recognized. The Tax Court upheld taxpayer's contention that by virtue of …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Severance Damages To Real Property Are A Component Of Charitable Deduction, Michael M. Hughes
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Severance Damages To Real Property Are A Component Of Charitable Deduction, Michael M. Hughes
Michigan Law Review
The United States selected part of petitioners' estate for construction of a Nike missile base and began condemnation proceedings and negotiations for sale of the premises in lieu of condemnation. Upon failure of the parties to agree on a sale price, petitioners made a gift of the site and certain easements in adjoining land to the United States for so long as the site was used as a missile base. In their 1955 return petitioners claimed a charitable deduction of $69,782 as the fair market value, including severance damages to the remaining portion of their estate, of the property conveyed. …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Published Opinions Of The New Tax Officialdom: A Review, David G. Hill S.Ed.
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Published Opinions Of The New Tax Officialdom: A Review, David G. Hill S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
President John F. Kennedy has appointed as his principal tax officials two men who have long been on record as proponents of tax reform. This comment is a collection and, to a small extent, an analysis of the opinions found in their published statements on taxation. Stanley S. Surrey, fifty-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, first served with the Treasury Department in 1937. He was Tax Legislative Counsel from 1942 to 1947 and later served as Special Counsel to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Administration of the Revenue Laws. He also has served as Reporter …
Federal Estate Tax - Marital Deduction - Annuity For Life With Guaranteed Certain Payments Not Divided Into Two Properties By Insurer's Accounting Treatment, William S. Bach
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, executor of decedent's estate, brought suit to recover an overpayment of federal estate tax. Decedent had purchased a life insurance policy and had elected an option under which proceeds would be paid to his wife in monthly payments for her life; however, the option also guaranteed a minimum of 240 payments. In the event the wife died before 240 payments were made, payments were to continue to decedent's daughter, or on the death of both wife and daughter, the commuted value of the remaining guaranteed payments would be paid in lump sum to the estate of the survivor. The …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Corporation Held Not Collapsible Where View To Sell Arose After Construction Completed, Amalya L. Kearse
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Corporation Held Not Collapsible Where View To Sell Arose After Construction Completed, Amalya L. Kearse
Michigan Law Review
Petitioners had formed a corporation for the purpose of building and operating a housing project. After the construction was completed and most of the apartments rented, small cracks were discovered in the buildings. Without soliciting engineering or other technical opinion, petitioners sold their stock in the corporation. The Tax Court upheld respondent-commissioner's taxing the profit from the sale of stock as ordinary income rather than capital gain, on the theory that the corporation was "collapsible" under section 117 (m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939. On appeal, held, reversed. Since the view to the sale of stock did …
Taxation - Income Tax -Gross Income From Mining As The Basis For Computing Percentage Depletion Allowances, John Niehuss
Taxation - Income Tax -Gross Income From Mining As The Basis For Computing Percentage Depletion Allowances, John Niehuss
Michigan Law Review
Respondent, a miner of raw fire clay and a manufacturer of such clay into vitrified products, claimed a percentage depletion deduction based upon the gross income from the sale of its finished goods, contending that because its crude minerals could not be sold profitably in a local market, these final products were the first to meet the statutory standard of "commercially marketable mineral product." The district court and the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit accepted respondent's contention. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held, reversed, one Justice concurring. The fact that a taxpayer himself cannot …
The New Tax Policy On Deferred Compensation, Ralph S. Rice
The New Tax Policy On Deferred Compensation, Ralph S. Rice
Michigan Law Review
No single factor of income tax planning today exceeds in importance those devices under which payment of tax with respect to services performed by an employee in his peak earning years is postponed until the compensation is actually paid to him at a later date. It is normally expected that through these devices payment will be made to the employee after he has partially or fully retired and no longer encounters the high tax burden which arises from progressive rates at the time the services are rendered.
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Collection Of State Use Tax From Nonresident Vendor, Jerome M. Salle
Constitutional Law - Due Process - Collection Of State Use Tax From Nonresident Vendor, Jerome M. Salle
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff, a Georgia corporation not qualified to do business in Florida, solicited orders for merchandise from Florida residents through independent brokers who forwarded the orders to plaintiff's Georgia office for acceptance. Plaintiff did not maintain any place of business in Florida nor have any regular employee or agent there. In a suit to enjoin the enforcement of a distress warrant issued upon plaintiff's failure to collect the Florida use tax, the chancellor denied relief and the Florida Supreme Court affirmed. On appeal to the United States Supreme Court, held, affirmed, one Justice dissenting. Enforcement of the statute requiring collection …
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Benefits May Be Gifts, Christopher Cobb
Taxation-Federal Income Tax-Strike Benefits May Be Gifts, Christopher Cobb
Michigan Law Review
Taxpayer received assistance from a labor union while he was participating in a strike called by the union. The area in which he lived had become a distressed area as a consequence of the strike, and the union had established a general program of aid for strikers with no other source of income. Both before and after he joined the union payments were made to taxpayer under this program. Taxpayer sued for a refund of the income tax he payed on the value of the assistance so received, and the jury returned a verdict in his favor, finding the payments …
Constitutional Law - Governmental Immunity - Immunity Of Agent Of Federal Government To State Taxation, Robert M. Steed S.Ed.
Constitutional Law - Governmental Immunity - Immunity Of Agent Of Federal Government To State Taxation, Robert M. Steed S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company contracted with the Atomic Energy Commission to construct and operate the Savannah River Project for development of the hydrogen bomb for a fee of one dollar. Under the contract du Pont was to purchase all materials and supplies with funds furnished by the United States, title to vest in the government immediately when it passed from the vendor. South Carolina attempted to apply its sales and use taxes to these purchases. In an action by the United States and du Pont before a statutory three-judge district court to enjoin collection of these …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax- Full Payment A Prerequisite To Refund Suit, Stuart S. Gunckel
Taxation - Federal Income Tax- Full Payment A Prerequisite To Refund Suit, Stuart S. Gunckel
Michigan Law Review
A tax deficiency of $28,908.60 including interest was levied by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue against the petitioner for a single tax year. Petitioner paid $5,058.54 but later filed a claim for refund which was disallowed by the Commissioner. On suit by petitioner in a United States district court for the refund, the court held the petitioner was not entitled to the refund because the claimed losses were actually capital in nature. The Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed and dismissed the complaint on the ground that the district court could not have jurisdiction until there had been …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Section 355 Held Applicable To The Division Of A Single Business, James N. Adler
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Section 355 Held Applicable To The Division Of A Single Business, James N. Adler
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner, E. P. Coady, and M. Christopher each owned 50 percent of the stock of the Christopher Construction Co., a corporation engaged for more than five years prior to November 15, 1954, in the conduct of a construction business. On that day the parent, Christopher Company, organized a subsidiary, E. P. Coady & Co., to which it transferred approximately one half of its contracts, equipment, and cash. In exchange, the parent company received all the stock of the subsidiary. Immediately thereafter, the parent distributed to petitioner, one of the two equal shareholders of the parent company, all the stock of …
Taxation- Federal Income Tax - Deductible Contributions To Nonqualified Profit-Sharing Plans, Robert M. Steed
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 …
Administrative Law - Administrative Procedure Act- Status Of Tax Court, James Cripe
Administrative Law - Administrative Procedure Act- Status Of Tax Court, James Cripe
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner instituted this action before the Tax Court for a review of rulings by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue determining deficiencies in the payment of his income taxes. The Tax Court held that it was not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act and had no means whatever of bringing before it the entire record, so called, that was before the Commissioner. On appeal, held, affirmed. Judicial review of the "whole record" mentioned in section 10 (e) of the Administrative Procedure Act envisages, in the case of adjudication, a review of the record made in cases governed by sections 5, …
Business Purpose And The Subchapter S Inspired Reorganization, Eugene C. Roemele
Business Purpose And The Subchapter S Inspired Reorganization, Eugene C. Roemele
Michigan Law Review
The potentially advantageous treatment under subchapter S permitting certain corporations to elect to pass through corporate income and losses to the shareholder, and to avoid the corporate tax, is the result of two different pressures. Tax collector and taxpayer have long been at odds over the purported double taxation of corporate earnings. The limited disregard of the corporate entity as a taxpaying entity then becomes another phase in the cycle begun in 1936, when dividends were subjected to full taxation at the shareholder level. The more recent concern for small business and the small business man has resulted in the …
Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Effect Of Presidential Freezing Orders On The Creation Of Excludable Bank Deposits For Nonresident Aliens, William Y. Webb
Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Effect Of Presidential Freezing Orders On The Creation Of Excludable Bank Deposits For Nonresident Aliens, William Y. Webb
Michigan Law Review
Decedent, a citizen and resident of France, was the sole income beneficiary of a trust fund held in New York by the plaintiff as trustee. An executive order, issued pursuant to the Trading with the Enemy Act, prohibited remittance of trust income to the decedent from 1940 to the time of her death in 1946. As this income accrued, the plaintiff's trust department transferred it to the plaintiff's general banking department in its own name as trustee and subject to its order out of current banking funds. In an action by the executor of the decedent-beneficiary's estate to recover an …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Contract Right Income To Cash Method Taxpayer Who Refused Cash Offer, Eldon Olson
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Contract Right Income To Cash Method Taxpayer Who Refused Cash Offer, Eldon Olson
Michigan Law Review
During 1951 petitioner, a cash method taxpayer, executed a mineral lease. As part of the consideration petitioner was to receive an unconditional bonus or advance royalty of fixed amount. The lessee was ready, able and willing to pay the entire amount on execution, but at petitioner's request the contract provided for a small payment on execution with one-half the balance due on January 5th of each of the next two years. About one month before each due date the contract rights were discounted at a bank of which petitioner was a director. The lessee remained ready, able and willing to …
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Commission Received By Life Insurance Agent On Policies Purchased By Him Held To Be Taxable Income, Roger W. Findley S.Ed.
Taxation - Federal Income Tax - Commission Received By Life Insurance Agent On Policies Purchased By Him Held To Be Taxable Income, Roger W. Findley S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Taxpayer was agent for eleven life insurance companies. From two of them he purchased policies on the lives of his business partner, three key employees, and his children. He paid the regular premiums and subsequently received standard first-year and renewal commissions. When taxpayer did not include these in his gross income, the Commissioner assessed deficiencies and was sustained by the district court, On appeal, held, affirmed. A commission received by a life insurance agent on a policy purchased by him is taxable income. Ostheimer v. United States, (3d Cir. 1959) 264 F. (2d) 789, cert. den. 80 S.Ct. …