Opinion

Amerco v. Commissioner

  • 96 T.C. 18
  • 96 T.C. No. 3
  • 1991 U.S. Tax Ct. LEXIS 3
Court
United States Tax Court
Filed
Jan 24, 1991
Status
Published
Author
Whalen
On the bench
Korner,Nims,Shields,Hamblen,Cohen,Swift,Jacobs,Gerber,Wright,Parr,Colvin,Halpern,Wells,Ruwe,Whalen,Chabot
Cited by
47 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.5%

holding that risk-shifting and risk- distributing “are necessary to the existence of insurance”

How later courts described this case

  • holding that risk-shifting and risk- distributing “are necessary to the existence of insurance”
  • noting that the four factors are not independent or exclusive but establish a framework for determining “the existence of insurance for Federal tax purposes”
  • 52% to 74% writing for unrelated parties
  • between 52% and 74% of insured risks were outside risks

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

WHALEN, J., dissenting: I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion in this case for the reasons stated in the “payments to insurance company subsidiary” segment of my dissenting opinion in Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Affiliated Corps, v. Commissioner, 96 T.C. 61 (1991), docket No. 2165-89, released today.

CHABOT and PARKER, J.J., agree with this dissent.

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