LEE v. C.I.R.

No. 97-4308.

155 F.3d 584 (1998)

Dwight E. LEE and Leslie E. Lee, Petitioners-Appellants, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 25, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas R. Moore, New York City, for petitioners-appellants.

Donald B. Tobin, Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for respondent-appellee (Loretta C. Argrett, Assistant Attorney General; Kenneth L. Greene, on the brief).

BEFORE: CALABRESI, CABRANES, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.


CALABRESI, Circuit Judge:

Petitioners claim that their payment of certain interest expenses entitles them to income tax deductions. The United States Tax Court (Howard A. Dawson, Jr., J.) disallowed the deductions and sustained the Commissioner's claim of a deficiency in petitioners' tax payments. We affirm the decision of the Tax Court as to the issues that were before it. We remand the case to the Tax Court for the limited purpose of altering the amount of...

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