Perrett v. Commissioner
United States Tax Court
Held, on the facts, petitioners did not suffer a deductible loss in 1970 on the disposition on Dec. 30 of stock which they had acquired in early December of that year because the stock purchase and sale transaction lacked significant economic substance.
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Held, on the facts, petitioners did not suffer a deductible loss in 1970 on the disposition on Dec. 30 of stock which they had acquired in early December of that year because the stock purchase and sale transaction lacked significant economic substance. Held, further, on the facts, the amounts paid by petitioner's partnership to certain trusts were not deductible as interest under sec. 163(a), I.R.C. 1954, because the transactions between the trusts and the partnership were not loans, in substance, and the trusts were mere conduits of the funds which were the subject of the purported loans.
1Opinion of the Court
Michael F. Perrett and Mari M. Perrett, Petitioners v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Perrett v. Commissioner
Docket Nos. 4446-74, 5900-76
United States Tax Court
74 T.C. 111; 1980 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 144;
April 24, 1980, Filed
Decision will be entered for the respondent in docket No. 4446-74.
Decision will be entered under Rule 155 in docket No. 5900-76.
Held, on the facts, petitioners did not suffer a deductible loss in 1970 on the disposition on Dec. 30 of stock which they had acquired in early December of that year because the stock purchase and sale transaction lacked significant…
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