Canfield v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
January 1988
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Cupp v. Commissioner · Bouhlas v. Trans World Airlines, Inc · Courtney v. Commissioner · Gizzi v. Commissioner
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“[where] the taxpayer establishes that the failure to produce adequate records is due to the loss of such records through circumstances beyond the taxpayer's control, such as destruction by fire, flood, earthquake, or other casualty, the taxpayer shall have a right to substantiate a deduction by reasonable reconstruction of his expenditures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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