Legal Opinion

Lazarus v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided August 17, 1972No. Docket Nos. 4886-69, 4887-69, 4888-69Published

Pursuant to a comprehensive plan developed for them by their attorneys, petitioners, on Apr. 30, 1963, established a foreign situs trust for the benefit of members of their family, and on Dec. 18, 1963, transferred to it their stock in a corporation which owned a shopping center.

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Pursuant to a comprehensive plan developed for them by their attorneys, petitioners, on Apr. 30, 1963, established a foreign situs trust for the benefit of members of their family, and on Dec. 18, 1963, transferred to it their stock in a corporation which owned a shopping center. Purportedly in consideration for the transfer, the trust executed a so-called private annuity agreement providing for the payment of $ 75,000 per year to petitioners, or the survivor of them, for life. As part of the prearrangement, the trust sold the stock to a corporation for a nonnegotiable promissory note,…

1Opinion of the Court

Simon M. Lazarus, et al., 1 Petitioners v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Lazarus v. Commissioner

Docket Nos. 4886-69, 4887-69, 4888-69

United States Tax Court

58 T.C. 854; 1972 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 71;

August 17, 1972, Filed

Decisions will be entered under Rule 50.

Pursuant to a comprehensive plan developed for them by their attorneys, petitioners, on Apr. 30, 1963, established a foreign situs trust for the benefit of members of their family, and on Dec. 18, 1963, transferred to it their stock in a corporation which owned a shopping center. Purportedly in consideration for the transfer,…

2Cases cited43 opinions

  1. Gregory v. HelveringSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. Helvering v. CliffordSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
  3. Jack E. Golsen and Sylvia H. Golsen v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1971
  4. Blair v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
  5. Knetsch v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960

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