LONG v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 64164.

32 T.C. 511 (1959)

CHAS. D. LONG AND GERTRUDE G. LONG, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed May 29, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton Yawitz, Esq., and Robert H. Batts, Esq., for the petitioners.

James H. Martin, Esq., for the respondent.


BRUCE, Judge:

This proceeding involves a deficiency in income tax for the year 1953 in the amount of $988.86.

The issues for decision are (1) whether amounts expended by a lawyer in campaigning for election to the governing board of a business-social club constitute ordinary and necessary expenses of his law practice, and, if so, whether such expenditures are capital in nature, and (2) whether respondent erred in disallowing as ordinary and necessary...

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