Legal Opinion

Wright v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided February 16, 1928No. Docket No. 4270Published

Under the facts and circumstances of this case the dividends received by the petitioner in the years 1919 and 1920 constitute stock dividends and are not taxable within the meaning of the taxing statute.

1Opinion of the Court

W. Q. WRIGHT, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

Wright v. Commissioner

Docket No. 4270.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

10 B.T.A. 806; 1928 BTA LEXIS 4027;

February 16, 1928, Promulgated

Under the facts and circumstances of this case the dividends received by the petitioner in the years 1919 and 1920 constitute stock dividends and are not taxable within the meaning of the taxing statute.

Leon de Fremery, Esq., Rufus H. Kimball, Esq., and Anson Herrick, C.P.A., for the petitioner.

D. D. Shepard, Esq., and G. E. Adams, Esq., for the respondent.

MORRIS

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