DALTON v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 69748.

34 T.C. 879 (1960)

SARAH DALTON, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed August 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. Meyer Pincus, Esq., for the petitioner.

Colin C. MacDonald, Jr., Esq., for the respondent.


Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for 1954 of $764.65. The issues are (1) whether payments to petitioner from her former husband in 1954, totaling $3,040, represented periodic payments of alimony and taxable income within section 71(a), I.R.C. 1954; and (2) if issue No. 1 is decided adversely to petitioner, whether, in spite of the election of the standard deduction, $1,014 of the $3,040 payment, which was retained by and paid to petitioner's attorney...

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