DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO. v. COMMISSIONER

Docket Nos. 32611, 32612.

26 T.C. 377 (1956)

THE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO., PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT. THE TIMES COMPANY, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.

United States Tax Court.

Filed May 31, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Jones, Esq., and John Enrietto, Esq., for the petitioners.

Ray H. Garrison, Esq., for the respondent.


The Commissioner has disallowed the petitioners' claims for excess profits tax relief for the years 1943, 1944, and 1945. The questions in issue, which are the same in both proceedings, are whether the petitioners' base period net income was depressed by reason of competition from a third newspaper, Tri-City Star, which began publication in the Davenport area in 1935, and whether, if so, the petitioners are entitled to excess profits tax relief either under subsection (b...

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