Legal Opinion · Dissent

Trinova Corp. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided February 27, 1997No. Docket No. 2931-94Published

P, a corporation, filed a consolidated tax return with its affiliated companies. P operated a division with assets that included certain section 38 assets upon which investment tax credits (ITC) had been claimed.

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P, a corporation, filed a consolidated tax return with its affiliated companies. P operated a division with assets that included certain section 38 assets upon which investment tax credits (ITC) had been claimed. P transferred the division assets to a wholly owned subsidiary, G. P agreed to transfer its shares in G to another shareholder, H, in return for H's shares in P. The two transactions qualified for nonrecognition status under secs. 351, 355, and 368 (a) (1) (D), I.R.C. R determined a deficiency for P's failure to include ITC recapture in income under sec. 47(a), I.R.C., on its 1986…

1Dissent

SWIFT, J.,

respectfully dissenting: With the benefit of the analyses provided in the opinions of the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals in Salomon, Inc. v. United States, 976 F.2d 837 (2d Cir. 1992), and Walt Disney Inc. v. Commissioner, 4 F.3d 735 (9th Cir. 1993), we should recognize the error made in our opinion in Walt Disney Inc. v. Commissioner, 97 T.C. 221 (1991), and sustain respondent’s position in this case.

The majority suggests that the issue herein turns primarily on whether a particular provision of the consolidated return regulations (namely, sec. 1.1502-3(f)(3), Example…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Gregory v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Commissioner v. Court Holding Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. Commissioner v. WilcoxSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  4. King Enterprises, Inc. v. The United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1969
  5. Lederer v. StocktonSupreme Court of the United States · 1922

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