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New Orleans Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided June 22, 1939No. Docket No. 94518Published

The petitioner, a Louisiana corporation with its office in New Orleans, over a period of years has made its income tax returns upon a fiscal year basis ending the last day of February.

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The petitioner, a Louisiana corporation with its office in New Orleans, over a period of years has made its income tax returns upon a fiscal year basis ending the last day of February. In its return for the fiscal year ended February 29, 1936, it deducted from gross income as tax accruals ten-twelfths of the real and personal property taxes levied for the calendar year 1935, and two-twelfths of those levied for the calendar year 1936. It then obtained from the respondent permission to change its method of reporting to a calendar year basis and filed a tax return for the period March 1 to…

1Opinion of the Court

NEW ORLEANS COLD STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE COMPANY, LTD., PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

New Orleans Cold Storage & Warehouse Co. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 94518.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

40 B.T.A. 121; 1939 BTA LEXIS 892;

June 22, 1939, Promulgated

The petitioner, a Louisiana corporation with its office in New Orleans, over a period of years has made its income tax returns upon a fiscal year basis ending the last day of February. In its return for the fiscal year ended February 29, 1936, it deducted from gross income as tax accruals ten-twelfths of the real and…

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