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12 T.C.M. 170

Bratton v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided February 19, 1953

United States Tax Court · decided 1953-02-19

Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1962

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Decided 1953-02-19

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O. D. Bratton v. Commissioner.
Bratton v. Commissioner
Docket No. 36222.
1953 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 363; 12 T.C.M. (CCH) 170; T.C.M. (RIA) 53054;
February 19, 1953
Lowell W. Taylor, Esq., 950 Commerce Title Building, Memphis, Tenn., for the petitioner. A. Robert Doll, Esq., for the respondent.

JOHNSON

¶1Memorandum Opinion

¶2JOHNSON, Judge: The respondent determined a deficiency in petitioner's income tax for the year 1945 in the amount of $11,608.79.

¶3Petitioner is a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, and filed his income tax return for the year 1945 with the collector of internal revenue for the western district of Tennessee.

¶4The only issue here presented is whether respondent in his notice of deficiency erred in holding that petitioner's wife, Mrs. Dorothy Bratton, and his daughter, Mrs. E. L. Betz, were not partners in the partnership firm of Memphis Box and Egg Case Company and that the income*364 they received in the taxable year was taxable to and should have been included by petitioner in his income for that year. That portion of respondent's deficiency notice here contested by petitioner reads as follows:

¶5"(b) In your return you reported distributable income from the partnership, Memphis Box and Egg Case Company, Memphis, Tennessee, in the amount of $1,316.99. It is held that your wife, Mrs. Dorothy Bratton, and your daughter, Mrs. E. L. Betz, were not members of the partnership within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Code; and that your correct distributable income therefrom amounted to $14,480.91. Accordingly, your net income has been increased in the amount of $13,169.92. Section 22 (a), Internal Revenue Code."

¶6Other adjustments made by respondent in his notice of deficiency were not contested by petitioner.

¶7During the trial of this proceeding respondent's counsel, in open court, confessed error to his determination in paragraph (b) above to the effect that petitioner's wife and daughter were not partners and that petitioner was taxable on the income they received from the partnership.

¶8Accordingly, respondent's determination on the partnership*365 issue is reversed.

¶9Decision will be entered under Rule 50.

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