COMMISSIONER OF INT. REV. v. BENSON

No. 10578.

146 F.2d 191 (1944)

COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE v. BENSON et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 13, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., and Sewall Key, A. F. Prescott, and I. Henry Kutz, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for petitioner.

Marcus O. Benson, in pro. per., for respondents.

Before MATHEWS, STEPHENS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

In their joint income tax return for 1940, Marcus O. Benson and Minerva J. Benson, husband and wife, in computing their net income, deducted from their gross income expenses aggregating $172.52. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue disallowed the deduction and hence determined a tax deficiency of $6.83. The Bensons thereupon petitioned the Tax Court (then called the Board of Tax Appeals) for a redetermination of the deficiency. The Commissioner...

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