Legal Opinion

De Brabant v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided August 18, 1936No. Docket No. 75546Published

TRUST INCOME - TO WHOM TAXABLE - REVENUE ACT OF 1928. - Where the person to whom income of a trust is distributable, is ascertained, but the distributability of that income, withheld during the tax year by the trustee on the ground that part or all of the amount withheld was corpus and not income, was contested, conclusively adjudicated in a later year as distributable income of the trust and then paid to the beneficiary, such income is not taxable to the trust under section…

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TRUST INCOME - TO WHOM TAXABLE - REVENUE ACT OF 1928. - Where the person to whom income of a trust is distributable, is ascertained, but the distributability of that income, withheld during the tax year by the trustee on the ground that part or all of the amount withheld was corpus and not income, was contested, conclusively adjudicated in a later year as distributable income of the trust and then paid to the beneficiary, such income is not taxable to the trust under section 161(a)(1), but is taxable to the beneficiary thereof for the year when distributable, whether or not it was then…

1Opinion of the Court

MARY CLARK DE BRABANT, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

De Brabant v. Commissioner

Docket No. 75546.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

34 B.T.A. 951; 1936 BTA LEXIS 623;

August 18, 1936, Promulgated

TRUST INCOME - TO WHOM TAXABLE - REVENUE ACT OF 1928. - Where the person to whom income of a trust is distributable, is ascertained, but the distributability of that income, withheld during the tax year by the trustee on the ground that part or all of the amount withheld was corpus and not income, was contested, conclusively adjudicated in a later year as distributable…

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  1. De Brabant v. CommissionerUnited States Board of Tax Appeals · 1936

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