PUTNAM v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 4754.

6 T.C. 702 (1946)

ROGER L. PUTNAM, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated April 11, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond T. King, Esq., for the petitioner.

Carl A. Stutsman, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined an income tax deficiency of $3,420.25 against petitioner for the year 1940. Petitioner claimed an overpayment. The only adjustment now contested is respondent's disallowance of a deduction for a contribution of $7,260 to the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, claimed under section 23 (o) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code. A second issue raised in the pleadings, relating to certain dividend income, has been disposed of by agreement of the parties...

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