WRIGHT v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 67973.

31 T.C. 1264 (1959)

KERNS WRIGHT AND MARGARET A. WRIGHT, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed March 31, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kerns Wright, Esq., pro se.

Maurice B. Townsend, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


DRENNEN, Judge:

Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioners' income tax for the calendar year 1954 of $2,914.28. The sole issue is whether the amount of $6,487.98 expended by petitioners for a trip around the world and subsequent attempts to publish a book about this trip should be allowed as a business deduction under section 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

Petitioners Kerns and Margaret Wright, hereinafter...

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