BEACON PUBLISHING CO. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REV.

No. 4920.

218 F.2d 697 (1955)

BEACON PUBLISHING COMPANY, a Kansas corporation, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

January 3, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Kobey, Denver, Colo. (of Kobey, Mitchell & McCarthy), Denver, Colo., for petitioner.

Grant W. Wiprud, Washington, D. C. (H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ellis N. Slack, Lee A. Jackson, Davis W. Morton, Jr., Sp. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., were with him on the brief), for respondent.

Before BRATTON, MURRAH, and PICKETT, Circuit Judges.


PICKETT, Circuit Judge.

The single question presented by this petition to review a decision of the tax court is whether sums received for prepaid newspaper subscriptions should have been included in the taxpayer's income for the year in which they were received, or spread over the unexpired subscription periods.

The material facts are not in dispute. The taxpayer kept its books and filed its income tax returns on the accrual basis. It published a daily newspaper...

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