ROBERTS & PORTER, INC. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 83515.

37 T.C. 23 (1961)

ROBERTS & PORTER, INC., PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed October 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy G. Lowry, Esq., for the petitioner.

Theodore W. Hirsh, Esq., for the respondent.


FISHER, Judge:

Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for the taxable year 1956 in the amount of $40,436.86. The issue for our decision is whether the amount paid by petitioner to redeem its convertible notes in excess of the issuing price is a deductible expense in whole or in part where the excess of the purchase price over the call price is attributable to the conversion feature of the notes.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

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