JONES v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 14611.

330 F.2d 302 (1964)

Donald B. JONES and Beverley V. Jones, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided April 7, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B. Jones, Newark, N. J., for petitioners.

Jonathan S. Cohen, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson, Joseph Kovner, Attorneys, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for respondent.

Before McLAUGHLIN and FORMAN, Circuit Judges, and LEAHY, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Taxpayer, inter alia, purchases remainder interests in trusts. In the two interests before us in this review, as is his practice, after the deaths of the life tenants but prior to the distribution of the estate remainders of the trusts, he transferred his interests therein. His motivation is to obtain capital gains treatment for income tax purposes. The Tax Court held that the taxpayer could not transmute gain which would be ordinary income to him into...

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