CLAUSE v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 3907.

5 T.C. 647 (1945)

ROBERT L. CLAUSE, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated August 28, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Wallace Booth, Esq., and A. G. Wallerstedt, C. P. A., for the petitioner.

Homer F. Benson, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a deficiency of $3,857.90 in gift tax for the calendar year 1941. The petitioner's return showed net gifts for 1941 of $692,550. The Commissioner determined that the amount should be $708,675. His explanation of this adjustment was that the value of item 2 on the return was $234,375 instead of $231,000, as returned, and the value of item 3 on the return was $474,750 instead of $462,000, as returned. He further explained that "The fair market value...

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