Legal Opinion

Hummel & Downing Co. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided November 19, 1953No. Docket No. 26283Published

Excess Profits Tax -- Sec. 722 (b) (2), I. R. C. -- Low Selling Prices Due to Temporary Overexpansion of Industry. -- The petitioner, a manufacturer of paper board shipping containers, has failed to show that it is entitled to relief under section 722 (b) (2) based upon abnormally low selling prices from late 1937 to late 1939 of the base period forced upon it and the industry of which it was a part by a temporary overexpansion of the competing kraft paper board industry.

1Opinion of the Court

Hummel & Downing Company, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent

Hummel & Downing Co. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 26283

United States Tax Court

21 T.C. 231; 1953 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 26;

November 19, 1953, Promulgated

Decision will be entered for the respondent.

Excess Profits Tax -- Sec. 722 (b) (2), I. R. C. -- Low Selling Prices Due to Temporary Overexpansion of Industry. -- The petitioner, a manufacturer of paper board shipping containers, has failed to show that it is entitled to relief under section 722 (b) (2) based upon abnormally low selling prices from late 1937 to late…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Hummel & Downing Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1952
  2. Hummel & Downing Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1953

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