Legal Opinion

Barth Smelting Corp. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided August 18, 1958No. Docket No. 35819Published

Held, the petitioner is not entitled to section 722 (b) (4), I. R. C. 1939, relief. The petitioner has not shown that its average base period net income was inadequate as a result of its commencing business during the base period.

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Held, the petitioner is not entitled to section 722 (b) (4), I. R. C. 1939, relief. The petitioner has not shown that its average base period net income was inadequate as a result of its commencing business during the base period. Furthermore, the purchase of a new plant in 1941 by a corporation newly incorporated in 1941, with the same stockholders as petitioner, is not, within the meaning of section 722 (b) (4), the consummation of a plan by the petitioner to which said petitioner had been committed prior to January 1, 1940.

1Opinion of the Court

Barth Smelting Corporation, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Barth Smelting Corp. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 35819

United States Tax Court

30 T.C. 1073; 1958 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 102;

August 18, 1958, Filed

Decision will be entered under Rule 50.

Held, the petitioner is not entitled to section 722 (b) (4), I. R. C. 1939, relief. The petitioner has not shown that its average base period net income was inadequate as a result of its commencing business during the base period. Furthermore, the purchase of a new plant in 1941 by a corporation newly incorporated in 1941, with the…

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