SOUTHERN COAST CORPORATION v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 26971.

17 T.C. 824 (1951)

SOUTHERN COAST CORPORATION, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated November 27, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam G. Winstead, Esq., for the petitioner.

D. Louis Bergeron, Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined deficiencies in petitioner's income tax for the calendar years 1944 and 1945 in the respective amounts of $2,295.44 and $1,160.28.

The question presented is whether certain expenditures of petitioner's in 1944 were deductible as ordinary business expenses, as claimed by petitioner, or whether same constituted a short term capital loss attributable to petitioner's failure to exercise an option within the meaning of section 117 (g) (2) of the Internal...

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