NELSON v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 72-1670.

472 F.2d 1224 (1973)

A. LeRoy and Pearl E. NELSON, Petitioners, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

January 12, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. LeRoy Nelson, in pro. per.

Pearl E. Nelson, in pro. per.

Scott T. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Issie L. Jenkins, Charles E. Anderson, Attys., Lee H. Henkel, Jr., Acting Chief Counsel, I. R. S., Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before TRASK, CHOY and GOODWIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Taxpayers appeal a Tax Court judgment denying a deduction of $22,000 as an ordinary business expense. The expense came when the taxpayers sold their loan business and then paid $20,000 to the purchaser and $2,000 in attorney fees for a release from their warranty liability on certain outstanding loans.

While the Tax Court correctly treated the $20,000 payment as an attempt to salvage capital, the $2,000 attorney fee was not so clearly a capital...

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