JOHNSON v. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE


387 Mass. 59 (1982)

438 N.E.2d 1059

CARL C. JOHNSON & another vs. DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 4, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward F. Hines, Jr. (Michael D. Bliss with him) for the taxpayers.

Stephen S. Ostrach, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Revenue.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

The taxpayers appeal from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) which denied their request for an abatement of income tax paid on income received in 1973. The board held that gain included within an installment payment received in 1973, on a sale of real estate in 1970, was income taxable under the Massachusetts income tax law even though gains from the sale of the real estate were not subject to the Massachusetts income tax in the year of the sale...

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