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16 T.C.M. 622

Saunders v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided July 31, 1957

United States Tax Court · decided 1957-07-31

Decided 1957-07-31

Martin Saunders v. Commissioner.
Saunders v. Commissioner
Docket No. 62885.
T.C. Memo 1957-142; 1957 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 98; 16 T.C.M. (CCH) 622; T.C.M. (RIA) 57142;
July 31, 1957
*98 Samuel E. Fredrick, Esq., for the petitioner. Jules W. Breslow, Esq., for the respondent.

TIETJENS

¶1Memorandum Opinion

¶2TIETJENS, Judge: The Commissioner determined a deficiency in income tax for the year 1953 in the amount of $382.01.

¶3The petitioner filed his income tax return for 1953 with the director of internal revenue for the Brooklyn district of New York. On the return he claimed the following itemized deductions:

Contributions$500.00
Interest552.00
Taxes370.00
Medical and dental expenses718.00
Miscellaneous285.00
The Commissioner disallowed the claimed deductions for lack of substantiation and allowed the standard deduction.

¶4The only question for decision is one of fact, i.e. the amount of itemized deductions which the petitioner may properly claim.

¶5At the conclusion of the trial of this case we found as a fact, from the petitioner's testimony and other evidence, that the petitioner had made the following deductible expenditures during the year 1953:

Contributions$135.00
Interest350.00
Taxes328.00
Medical and dental expenses320.00 *
Miscellaneous65.00

¶6*99 Whether these findings will result in a smaller deficiency than determined by the Commissioner will depend on a Rule 50 computation.

¶7Decision will be entered under Rule 50.


Footnotes

  • ¶8*. This amount represents actual medical and dental expenditures.↩

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