Commonwealth v. Staley

OPINION

MANDERINO, Justice.

Appellants, Fred W. Staley and Barbara K. Staley, husband and wife, filed a state income tax return for the year 1971, showing joint income of $6,543. In reporting their taxable income, appellants did not include all of the payments of money received by the husband from the Prudential Insurance Company of America, by whom the husband was employed as a life insurance agent.

The appellee, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Revenue, determined appellants’ taxable income to be $8,524. The difference in the amount of taxable income reported by the appellants and…