Legal Opinion

Fred W. Amend Co. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided November 19, 1970No. Docket No. 5385-67Published

Held, amounts expended for the retention of a Christian Science practitioner whose services, during the years in issue, were availed of solely by petitioner's treasurer-board chairman, were not properly deductible by petitioner as an ordinary and necessary expense of its business.

1Opinion of the Court

Fred W. Amend Co., Petitioner v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Fred W. Amend Co. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 5385-67

United States Tax Court

55 T.C. 320; 1970 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 29;

November 19, 1970, Filed

Decision will be entered for the respondent.

Held, amounts expended for the retention of a Christian Science practitioner whose services, during the years in issue, were availed of solely by petitioner's treasurer-board chairman, were not properly deductible by petitioner as an ordinary and necessary expense of its business.

John Enrietto, for the petitioner.

Robert H. Burgess, for…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Welch v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1933
  2. Kroll v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1968
  3. Anderson v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  4. Challenge Mfg. Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1962
  5. Gene O. Clark and Faye Clark v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1959

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