Legal Opinion

De Perigny v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided October 28, 1947No. Docket No. 6679Published

Value of 99-year leasehold interests (exchangeable for 999-year interests) in land situated in Kenya Colony, British East Africa, held excludible from decedent's gross estate for Federal estate tax purposes, as "real property situated outside of the United States," under Internal Revenue Code, sec. 811.

1Opinion of the Court

Estate of Margaret Thaw Carnegie de Perigny, Fidelity Trust Company, Executor, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

De Perigny v. Commissioner

Docket No. 6679

United States Tax Court

9 T.C. 782; 1947 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 52;

October 28, 1947, Promulgated

Decision will be entered under Rule 50.

Value of 99-year leasehold interests (exchangeable for 999-year interests) in land situated in Kenya Colony, British East Africa, held excludible from decedent's gross estate for Federal estate tax purposes, as "real property situated outside of the United States," under Internal Revenue…

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