ALTMANN v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 26558.

20 T.C. 236 (1953)

BERNHARD ALTMANN, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated April 30, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. O. Kramer, Esq., and Edward Wallace, Esq., for the petitioner.

Charles M. Greenspan, Esq., for the respondent.


The respondent has determined a deficiency in income tax for 1945 in the amount of $128,324.67. Respondent disallowed a loss deduction taken in the return in the amount of $150,000. Petitioner has made claim for deduction in an increased amount, and he now claims that he sustained in 1945 losses in the aggregate amount of $313,838.37, resulting from theft and confiscation of property in 1945, located in Vienna, Austria. Petitioner claims that he is entitled to loss deductions...

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