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11 B.T.A. 859

Malm v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals

Decided April 27, 1928

United States Board of Tax Appeals · decided 1928-04-27

Held, that the Commissioner correctly applied the provisions of section 218(a) of the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921 in computing the individual incomes of petitioners… Held: that the Commissioner correctly applied the provisions of section 218(a) of the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921 in computing the individual incomes of petitioners resulting from their respective shares of the distributive net profits of a partnership of which they were members in the taxable year.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1945

Relies on Cornelius Cotton Mills v. Commissioner · Mills v. Commissioner

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Decided 1928-04-27

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¶1OPINION.

Lansdon :

¶2The only controvery here relates to the proper method of reporting individual income resulting from the receipt by partners *860of the distributive net earnings of the partnership. The controlling statutory provision, section 218(a) of the Revenue Acts of 1918 and 1921, is as follows:

That individuals carrying on business in partnership shall be liable for income tax only in their individual capacity. There shall be included in computing the net income of each partner his distributive share, whether distributed or not, of the net income of the partnership for the taxable year, or, if his net income for such taxable year is computed upon the basis of a period different from that upon the basis of which the net income of the partnership is computed, then his distributive share of the net income of the partnership for any accounting period of the partnership ending within the fiscal or calendar year upon the basis of which the partner’s net income is computed.

¶3Each of the petitioners made his return of income on a calendar year basis, and ignoring the provision of law above cited, undertook to include therein his share of the net distributive earnings of the partnership for the calendar year which was the basis of his own report. This method obviously is contrary to the provision of the statute. J. H. Goadby Mills, 3 B. T. A. 1245.

¶4The Board has no jurisdiction over the year 1922 as to either petitioner since only an overassessment in each case is determined for that year. Cornelius Cotton Mills, 4 B. T. A. 255.

¶5The determination of the respondent is approved as to the deficiencies.

¶6Judgment ioill be entered for the respondent.

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