GRAGG v. UNITED STATES

No. 176-74.

551 F.2d 827 (1977)

O.L. GRAGG and Inez Gragg v. The UNITED STATES.

United States Court of Claims.

March 23, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Chamberlain, Houston, Tex., attorney of record, for plaintiff. Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White & Waters, Houston, Tex., of counsel.

Allan C. Lewis, Washington, D.C., with whom was Acting Asst. Atty. Gen. Myron C. Baum, Washington, D.C., for defendant. Theodore C. Peyser and Donald H. Olson, Washington, D.C., of counsel.

Before COWEN, Senior Judge, and NICHOLS and BENNETT, Judges.


OPINION

NICHOLS, Judge.

In this tax refund case, plaintiffs urge us to hold that § 1251 of the Internal Revenue Code is constitutionally invalid because in computing a taxpayer's "farm net income" § 1251(e)(2)(B) excludes some gains from calculation of gross income that could otherwise be considered taxable "income" under the sixteenth amendment. Thus, according to plaintiffs Congress has arbitrarily denied these gains their character as income...

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