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13 T.C. 731

Equitable Trust Co. v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided November 10, 1949

United States Tax Court · decided 1949-11-10

Held, sections 826 and 827, I. R. C., authorize the collector to recover estate taxes from assets of inter vivos trust before first exhausting assets of decedent's estate in the hands of the executor. Held: sections 826 and 827, I. R. C., authorize the collector to recover estate taxes from assets of inter vivos trust before first exhausting assets of decedent's estate in the hands of the executor.

Relies on McCall v. Commissioner

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decision will be entered for the respondent · Decided 1949-11-10

How this case has been cited

Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1975

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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Van Fossan, J.,

¶1dissenting: It is my judgment that this case is not distinguishable from Florence McCall, 26 B. T. A. 292, and other cases decided by this Court. Certain I am that in the McCall case we did not “assume” without argument “that the transferees of said assets under the statutes then in force were not subject to liability until all efforts to collect from the executor had proved futile.” That holding was basic in the cited case and was buttressed with ample and well recognized authority. The slight variation in the language of the present statute from that then in force is not sufficient to justify a departure from the rule there laid down. Nor can I agree that “in the cited cases the whole question of law that is now before this Court was not then considered,” as stated in the prevailing opinion.

¶2Being of the opinion that the holding of the majority is at once faulty in its logic and contrary to well settled law, I dissent.

Ohper, J., agrees with this dissent.
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