JOHN WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 108505.

1 T.C. 937 (1943)

JOHN WANAMAKER PHILADELPHIA, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated April 14, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. J. McGuire, Esq., and Philip Bardes, Esq., for the petitioner.

Dean P. Kimball, Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding is for the redetermination of deficiencies in income tax for the fiscal years ended January 31, 1936, 1937, and 1938, in the amounts of $1,929.54, $2,637.92, and $73,227.89, respectively. The issues submitted for decision are (1) whether or not amounts accrued in the taxable years and paid by petitioner on its so-called preferred stock are deductible as interest, and (2) whether or not petitioner is entitled to take a bad debt deduction from gross income for...

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