Legal Opinion

Paper v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided December 12, 1933No. Docket Nos. 59040, 64744Published

Pursuant to an election given to stockholders in a resolution declaring corporate dividends, the petitioners elected to receive, and were paid, in corporation's preferred stock for their shares in the corporate earnings distributed. Held, in the circumstances shown, that the petitioners are taxable upon the stock they received as an ordinary corporate dividend.

1Opinion of the Court

JOSEPH PAPER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

DAVID PAPER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

Paper v. Commissioner

Docket Nos. 59040, 64744.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

29 B.T.A. 523; 1933 BTA LEXIS 927;

December 12, 1933, Promulgated

Pursuant to an election given to stockholders in a resolution declaring corporate dividends, the petitioners elected to receive, and were paid, in corporation's preferred stock for their shares in the corporate earnings distributed. Held, in the circumstances shown, that the petitioners are taxable upon the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Paper v. CommissionerUnited States Board of Tax Appeals · 1933

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