PIPER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 4977.

5 T.C. 1104 (1945)

WILLIAM T. PIPER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated November 27, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Cross, Esq., and Earl C. Walck, Esq., for the petitioner.

William H. Best, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner has determined a deficiency of $4,221.63 in the petitioner's income tax liability for 1940.

The questions involved are whether certain stock subscription warrants which petitioner acquired with common stock, as a unit, had value at the time he received them and, if so, whether there is a practical basis upon which an allocation of cost between the common stock and warrants can be made for the purpose of computing the gain or loss on a sale of the...

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