H. W. PORTER & CO. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 17773.

14 T.C. 307 (1950)

H. W. PORTER & CO., INC., AND SUBSIDIARY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated February 28, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. H. Goodner, Esq., and Scott P. Crampton, Esq., for the petitioner.

John T. Rogers, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner determined a deficiency of $19,374.50 in petitioner's excess profits tax for 1943 in part by adding to income reported a gain on the sale of petitioner's own shares, acquired and held in its treasury, to stockholders and employees. He also disallowed an addition to a reserve for bad debts. Petitioner contends that its sale of shares was a nontaxable capital transaction and that its addition to the bad debt reserve was reasonable and deductible. It also assigns...

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