United States Board of Tax Appeals, 1926

Brooks v. Commissioner

Brooks v. Commissioner
United States Board of Tax Appeals · Decided October 20, 1926 · Sternhagen
5 B.T.A. 127; 1926 BTA LEXIS 2956
Brooks v. Commissioner

Opinion

APPEAL OF ISAAC BROOKS.
Brooks v. Commissioner
Docket No. 6278.
United States Board of Tax Appeals
5 B.T.A. 127; 1926 BTA LEXIS 2956;
October 20, 1926, Decided
*2956 Arnold R. Baar, Esq., for the petitioner.
F. O. Graves, Esq., for the Commissioner.

STERNHAGEN

*127 Deficiency of $217.68 income tax for the calendar year 1924.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The petitioner is an individual residing at South Bend, Ind. He was a member of a partnership which kept its books and made its partnership return on the basis of a fiscal year beginning February 1, 1923, and ending January 31, 1924.

The petitioner filed an individual income-tax return for the calendar year 1924, including therein the amount of $11,888.18, which was his distributive share of the partnership income for its fiscal year. Ten thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven dollars and fifty cents of this amount was his portion of the partnership income attributable to the year 1923.

*128 In computing the tax the Commissioner applied the rates imposed by the Revenue Act of 1921 to $10,897.50 without making an allowance of 25 per cent under section 1200 of the Revenue Act of 1924.

OPINION.

STERNHAGEN: The decision of the question involved in this proceeding is governed by *2957 .

Judgment will be entered for the Commissioner.

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