AVENT v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

No. 7506.

76 F.2d 386 (1935)

AVENT v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 27, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. E. H. Goodner, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner.

Frank J. Wideman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Thomas A. Carpenter, Sewall Key, and Norman D. Keller, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Robert H. Jackson, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Hartford Allen, Sp. Atty., Bureau of Internal Revenue, both of Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER, and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

The Board of Tax Appeals sustained a deficiency income tax assessment for the years 1927 and 1928 on the theory that the taxpayer should be treated as a member of a partnership and not allowed to take deductions for the full amount of the partnership losses. It is contended in support of this petition for review that the taxpayer was entitled to deduct from his income tax returns the full amount of the business losses, because there was in fact...

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