Poirier v. Collector of Revenue

COLE, Judge.

This case involves alleged deficiencies in state income taxes for the calendar years 1965,1967 and 1968. The events giving rise to this litigation are as follows.

Plaintiffs, Leon S. and Andrein Poirier, filed their 1965 income tax return late, on April 25, 1967. They filed their 1967 tax return timely, April 15, 1968. Plaintiffs were audited in 1971 and it was discovered they had failed to report two substantial amounts of income earned during 1965 and 1967. The source of the income was the sale of two buildings resulting in a gain to the taxpayers of $167,168.30 in 1965 and…