J. E. MERGOTT COMPANY v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 14096.

11 T.C. 47 (1948)

THE J. E. MERGOTT COMPANY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated July 19, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emanuel P. Scheck, Esq., for the petitioner.

John E. Mahoney, Esq., for the respondent.


By this proceeding petitioner challenges respondent's determination of deficiencies in declared value excess profits tax for the taxable year 1943 in the amount of $323.07 and in excess profits tax for the taxable year 1944 in the amount of $18,651.96.

The only question in dispute is whether petitioner is entitled to deduct in 1943 the sum of $17,068.68, or any lesser amount, as a loss resulting from the scrapping of tumbling barrels and tanks in that year. That deduction...

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