TAR PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV.

No. 7973.

130 F.2d 866 (1942)

TAR PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. McClure, of Washington, D. C. (Maude Ellen White, David W. Richmond, and Miller & Chevalier, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for petitioner.

Joseph M. Jones, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen. (Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key and Gerald L. Wallace, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for respondent.

Before MARIS and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges, and BARD, District Judge.


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

The sole question involved in this petition for review of a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals is when a dividend becomes income to a shareholder of a corporation. The taxpayer, a Rhode Island corporation, has its general office in Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1936 it owned shares in another corporation. In October, 1936 this corporation declared a cash dividend payable on January 2, 1937 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December...

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