Legal Opinion

Clougherty Packing Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Decided March 3, 1987No. 85-7707PublishedCited by 60 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

We are presented with another version of a not so novel question: Are amounts paid as “insurance premiums” by a parent corporation to its “captive insurance company” 1 subsidiary deductible for purposes of federal income taxation? This latest twist, like the previous case we considered, Carnation Co. v. Commissioner, 640 F.2d 1010 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 454 U.S. 965, 102 S.Ct. 506, 70 L.Ed.2d 381 (1981), aff'g 71 T.C. 400 (1978), involves the purchase by a parent of insurance from an unrelated insurance company and the reinsurance by the unrelated company of the…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Moline Properties, Inc. v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  2. National Carbide Corp. v. CommissionerSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
  3. George v. Zmuda and Walburga Zmuda v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
  4. Helvering v. Le GierseSupreme Court of the United States · 1941
  5. National Investors Corporation v. HoeyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944

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3Cited by60 opinions

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  4. Humana Inc. v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1989
  5. Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. CommissionerUnited States Tax Court · 1991

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