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30 T.C. 928

Morris v. Commissioner

United States Tax Court

Decided July 16, 1958

United States Tax Court · decided 1958-07-16

1. Held, petition dismissed for lack of prosecution, and deficiencies and additions to tax under section 294 (d) (1) (A) and (d) (2), I. R. C. 1939, found as set forth in the notice of deficiency. 2. Held: petition dismissed for lack of prosecution, and deficiencies and additions to tax under section 294 (d) (1) (A) and (d) (2), I. R. C. 1939, found as set forth in the notice of deficiency. 2.

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Decision will be entered under Rule 50 · Decided 1958-07-16

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably Gilday v. Commissioner (1974), Gordon v. Commissioner (1980)

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¶1OPINION.

Van Fossan, Judge:

¶2The Commissioner determined deficiencies in income tax and additions to tax under sections 293 (b), 294 (d) (1) (A), and 294 (d) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1989, against the petitioner as follows:

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¶3These deficiencies and additions to tax were made the subject of a jeopardy assessment.

¶4Petitioner, Louis Morris, is a resident of Osceola, Indiana. He filed his income tax returns for the years here involved with the then collector of internal revenue for the district of Indiana.

¶5Petitioner’s income tax returns for each of the years 1946 through 1950 were false and fraudulent with intent to evade tax. Some part of the deficiency for each of the years is due to fraud with intent to evade tax.

¶6Petitioner failed to file a declaration of estimated tax in each of the years 1946, 1947, and 1950, and failed to make a declaration of 80 per cent of the tax due in each of the years 1948 and 1949.

¶7There was no appearance for the petitioner at the hearing and no evidence was presented in his behalf.

¶8The respondent moved that the proceeding be dismissed for lack of prosecution and that the Court find the deficiencies in income tax and additions to tax under section 294 (d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, as set forth in the notice of deficiency. It is so ordered.

¶9The respondent also moved for judgment on the fraud issue as to which he had the burden of proof. Affirmative allegations in the answer deemed admitted, by an order of this Court pursuant to Tax Court Rule 18, because of petitioner’s failure to reply after due notice, satisfy the respondent’s burden on the fraud issue. Robert Kenneth, Black, 19 T. C. 414.

¶10Respondent submitted in evidence a schedule showing partial payments of the deficiencies for the years 1947,1948, and 1949, and over-payments for the years 1946 and 1950. Therefore,

¶11Decision will be entered under Rule 50.

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