Foster v. Commissioner
United States Tax Court
Held, petitioner's monthly drawing account, which he received while in Saudi Arabia as a partner of a domestic partnership, represented a distribution of reportable partnership profits and not "guaranteed payments" that would constitute "earned income" from sources without the United States wholly excludable from gross income and exempt from taxation as provided for under section 911(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
1Opinion of the Court
Thomas Browne Foster, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Foster v. Commissioner
Docket No. 89865
United States Tax Court
42 T.C. 974; 1964 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 51;
August 27, 1964, Filed
Decision will be entered for the respondent.
Held, petitioner's monthly drawing account, which he received while in Saudi Arabia as a partner of a domestic partnership, represented a distribution of reportable partnership profits and not "guaranteed payments" that would constitute "earned income" from sources without the United States wholly excludable from gross income and exempt from…
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