ROHMER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 35558.

21 T.C. 1099 (1954)

SAX ROHMER, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Promulgated March 31, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Watson Washburn, Esq., for the petitioner.

Paul M. Stewart, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


This proceeding involves a deficiency in gift tax for the calendar year 1938 of $206.25 and a penalty of $51.56 asserted against Sax Rohmer (hereinafter referred to as the petitioner).

The issues to be determined are: (1) Whether petitioner's assignment to his wife of a one-half interest in his literary work, "Drums of Fu Manchu," constitutes a gift, taxable to petitioner; (2) if so, the value of the gift; (3) whether the assessment of a gift tax against petitioner...

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