BUTLER v. COMMISSIONER

Docket No. 2759-64.

46 T.C. 280 (1966)

HOYT BUTLER AND VIRGINIA W. BUTLER, PETITIONERS, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed May 23, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph B. Alala, Jr., and Charles D. Gray III, for the petitioners.

O'Hear W. Fraser, Jr., for the respondent.


SCOTT, Judge:

Respondent determined deficiencies in petitioners' income tax for the calendar years 1959, 1960, and 1961 in the amounts of $361.58, $361.57, and $216.95, respectively.

The issue for decision is whether petitioner Hoyt Butler received the amount of $9,641.99 as payment for goodwill of a one-half interest in his accounting practice which he conveyed to J. Edward Stowe pursuant to an oral agreement between the two for the formation of a...

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