WATTLEY v. C. I. R.

No. 104, Docket 25801.

275 F.2d 461 (1960)

Ralph B. WATTLEY and Josephine R. Wattley, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided February 16, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph B. Wattley, pro se.

Arthur I. Gould, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Charles K. Rice, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Harry Baum, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before SWAN, MAGRUDER and LUMBARD, Circuit Judges.


MAGRUDER, Circuit Judge.

Nobody enjoys paying taxes. This is particularly true of a taxpayer who receives a large commission in a given year as the culmination of years of service and who is told to report the income as all having been received in that year, thus boosting him into the higher tax brackets.

To some extent the Congress was sympathetic to the above feeling, so that in enacting the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 it provided in § 107(a) as follows...

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