LEVANT v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 3893-63.

45 T.C. 185 (1965)

JACK I. LEVANT AND MAY LEVANT, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT

United States Tax Court.

Filed November 29, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julian L. Berman and S. Richard Fine, for the petitioners.

George G. Young, for the respondent.


DRENNEN, Judge:

Respondent determined a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for the taxable year 1960 in the amount of $124,021.02.

The issues for decision arise from a transaction in 1960 by which petitioner, Jack I. LeVant (hereafter referred to as petitioner or LeVant), exchanged an option to purchase a 20-percent interest in the business of S. M. Edison Chemical Co., Inc. (hereafter referred to as Edison, Inc.), for 6,494 shares of stock of Colgate...

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