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7 B.T.A. 798

Cooper v. Commissioner

United States Board of Tax Appeals · decided 1927-07-29

The excess of deductions for depletion based on minimum royalties, over the actual depletion sustained, does not constitute income to a lessor in the year in which the lease is abandoned.

Cited by 1 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1944

Relies on Knapp v. Commissioner

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1927-07-29

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¶1*799OPINION.

Marquette :

¶2The question here presented is the same as that before the Board in Kittie A. Knapp, 7 B. T. A. 790, and it arises from the same transaction. In that proceeding we held that there is no authority of law for including in a taxpayer’s income in one year excessive depletion allowed as deductions for prior years, and in accordance with our decision therein, we hold that no part of the amounts allowed the petitioner as depletion deductions in the years prior to 1919 should be included in his income for that year.

¶3Reviewed by the Board.

¶4Judgment will he entered on 15 days' notice, under Bule 50.

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