LABELGRAPHICS, INC. v. C.I.R.

No. 99-70164.

221 F.3d 1091 (2000)

LABELGRAPHICS, INC., Petitioner-Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 8, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gersham Goldstein (argued) and Charles F. Adams, Stoel Rives, Portland, Oregon, for the petitioner-appellant.

A. Wray Muoio (argued) and Gilbert S. Rothenberg, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the respondent-appellee.

Before: LAY, TASHIMA, and McKEOWN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

This case stems from a bonus-characterized by the taxpayer itself as "unusually high"-paid to the president of a closely held, single-shareholder corporation. The taxpayer, LabelGraphics, Inc., ("Label-Graphics") appeals the Tax Court's decision that only $406,000 of the $878,913 paid to its president, Lon D. Martin ("Martin"), in fiscal year 1990, was reasonable compensation and therefore deductible as an ordinary and necessary...

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