United States v. Consolidated Elevator Co.

THOMAS, Circuit Judge.

On August 1, 1939, the Consolidated Elevator Company, a Minnesota corporation, began doing business. On the same date it acquired by purchase from a former owner certain real estate situated in Duluth, Minnesota. In its first income tax return filed April 11, 1940, for the period August 1, 1939, to January 31, 1940, the company deducted the general taxes levied for the calendar year 1939 and payable in 1940 on the real estate so acquired in the amount of $26,417.82. The return was made upon an accrual basis and for a fiscal year ending January 31st. The Commisioner of…