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Carpenter v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1966-228 (1966) was a case decided by the United States Tax Court. [1] Carpenter v. Commissioner addressed the issue of whether a husband and wife could deduct the aggregate fair market value of the wife’s engagement ring from their income tax return, as a casualty loss under §165(a) and (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, [2] after the husband ...
The Tax court had to decide whether the taxpayer had the ability receive the check or whether she faced "substantial limitations" on this ability as a result of the circumstances. The Tax Court noted prior decisions that held a taxpayer to have constructively received funds as of the time of attempted delivery when the taxpayer made a decision ...
President Calvin Coolidge signing the income tax bill which established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals; Andrew Mellon is the third figure from the right.. The first incarnation of the Tax Court was the "U.S. Board of Tax Appeals", established by Congress in the Revenue Act of 1924 [4] [5] (also known as the Mellon tax bill) in order to address the increasing complexity of tax-related litigation.
Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co., 348 U.S. 426 (1955), was an important income tax case before the United States Supreme Court.The Court held as follows: Congress, in enacting income taxation statutes that comprehend "gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever," intended to tax all gain except that which was specifically exempted.
It seems proper that a substantial amount should [*4] be included in their income for 1948 on account of the winning of the tickets. The problem of arriving at a proper fair figure for this purpose is difficult. The evidence to assist is meager, perhaps unavoidably so. The Court, under such circumstances, must arrive at some figure and has done so.
In Jenkins v.Commissioner, T.C. Memo 1983-667 (U.S. Tax Court Memos 1983), [1] the U.S. Tax Court held that the payments Conway Twitty, a country singer, made to investors in a defunct restaurant business known as "Twitty Burger, Inc." were deductible under § 162 of the Internal Revenue Code [2] as ordinary and necessary business expenses of petitioner's business as a country music performer.
The Supreme Court of the United States has heard numerous cases in the area of tax law. This is an incomplete list of those cases. This is an incomplete list of those cases. Article One
United States Tax Court, a United States federal court List of Judges of the United States Tax Court; Uniformity and jurisdiction in U.S. federal court tax decisions; State court (United States) Oregon Tax Court of the Oregon Judicial Department; Hawaii Tax Appeal Court of the Hawai'i State Judiciary; Indiana Tax Court; Massachusetts Appellate ...