WATSON v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 7554.

8 T.C. 569 (1947)

THOMAS WATSON, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated March 21, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Watson, pro se.

Brooks Fullerton, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined deficiencies of $4,858.04 and $2,728.88 in petitioner's income tax for 1940 and 1941, respectively. Petitioner assails:

(1) The disallowance of a bad debt deduction, claimed for 1940 because of his payment by personal note of a note given him for advances to a corporation, later insolvent and dissolved, which note he had endorsed and discounted at a bank. In the alternative he claims the same deduction for 1941, when he paid his personal...

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