Legal Opinion

Alworth-Washburn Co. v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided January 12, 1932No. Docket No. 45651Published

Where a corporation sells a group of installment notes, representing the unpaid portions of the purchase price of lands sold by it in a prior year, by blank endorsement to a bank, the amount received by it in said transaction, to the extent that it represents profits realized from the sale of the lands, is reportable as a part of its gross income for the year.

1Opinion of the Court

ALWORTH-WASHBURN COMPANY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

Alworth-Washburn Co. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 45651.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

25 B.T.A. 140; 1932 BTA LEXIS 1569;

January 12, 1932, Promulgated

Where a corporation sells a group of installment notes, representing the unpaid portions of the purchase price of lands sold by it in a prior year, by blank endorsement to a bank, the amount received by it in said transaction, to the extent that it represents profits realized from the sale of the lands, is reportable as a part of its gross income for the year.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Alworth-Washburn Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Board of Tax Appeals · 1932

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