DAVIS EX REL. ESTATE OF FREEMAN v. U.S.

Civil No. 04-cv-273-SM, 2007 DNH 077P.

491 F.Supp.2d 192 (2007)

Mary C. DAVIS, Executrix of the ESTATE OF Kenneth FREEMAN, Plaintiff v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. New Hampshire.

June 13, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter S. Black, Valerie Wright, William C. Knowles, Verrill & Dana, Portland, ME, for Plaintiff.

Stephen T. Lyons, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Tax Division, Washington, DC, for Defendant.


ORDER

McAULIFFE, Chief Judge.

The question presented by this case is how a decedent's state lottery winnings (in the form of 10 annual payments of approximately $209,000) should be valued for federal estate tax purposes. The government argues that the right to ongoing lottery payments is properly valued by reference to the annuity tables set out in the Internal Revenue Code ("IRC"), yielding a taxable value, in this case, of $1,607,164.

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