Legal Opinion

Guild v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided May 28, 1930No. Docket Nos. 6020, 8120, 18117, 18130, 18134, 18171-18180, 18182, 18227, 19661, 27021Published

1. INCOME - DIVIDENDS - DISTRIBUTION IN LIQUIDATION. - Amounts received by petitioners in 1921 and 1922 from a corporation of which they were stockholders, and representing distributions of earnings accumulated by the corporation subsequent to February 28, 1913, held to be income to them exempt from normal tax and subject to surtax under the Revenue Act of 1921, whether normal dividends or distributions in liquidation. 2. Id. - Upon the proof, held that similar distributions…

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1. INCOME - DIVIDENDS - DISTRIBUTION IN LIQUIDATION. - Amounts received by petitioners in 1921 and 1922 from a corporation of which they were stockholders, and representing distributions of earnings accumulated by the corporation subsequent to February 28, 1913, held to be income to them exempt from normal tax and subject to surtax under the Revenue Act of 1921, whether normal dividends or distributions in liquidation. 2. Id. - Upon the proof, held that similar distributions made by the corporation to these petitioners in 1919 and 1920 were not made in liquidation of the corporation within…

1Opinion of the Court

W. E. GUILD, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

H. A. MILLER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

H. M. FINKBINE, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

W. T. SHEPHERD, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

G. W. THOMAS, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

ESTATE OF K. E. JEWETT, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

AUGUSTA FINKBINE, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

ADDIE H. FINKBINE, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Swift v. TysonSupreme Court of the United States · 1842
  2. Weiss v. WeinerSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  3. Weiss v. StearnSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
  4. Burk-Waggoner Oil Assn. v. HopkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
  5. Kuhn v. Fairmont Coal Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1910

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