Idaho Power Co. v. United States

The plaintiff corporation sues to recover $91,145.80 of income and excess profits taxes, a part of the taxes paid by it for the year 1944. The ground for its suit is that it was denied a “dividends paid” credit or reduction of its taxable income, which reduction it claimed on account of certain payments made by it in connection with the rearrangement of the structure of its preferred stock.

The plaintiff is a public utility. Its contentions in this suit are, in part, the same as those made by Atlantic City Electric Company v. United States, this day decided, ante, p. 519. We will not repeat…