Opinion

Hall v. Commissioner

  • 10 B.T.A. 847
  • 1928 BTA LEXIS 4032
Court
United States Board of Tax Appeals
Filed
Feb 16, 1928
Status
Published
Author
Littleton
On the bench
Littleton
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 66.0%

The opinion

*848 OPINION.

Littleton :

The petitioner claims that the Commissioner erred in refusing to allow a deduction of the items of $50 and $934.40 from gross income for the year 1923. Upon the facts submitted, the Board is of the opinion that the Commissioner correctly disallowed these deductions. The expenditure of $50 was a personal rather than a business expense and the facts stipulated are not sufficient to warrant the Board in holding that the cost of operating petitioner’s personal automobile in going from Portsmouth, Va., to the Naval Air Station at Hampton Roads, amounting to $934.40, was an ordinary and necessary business expense. It is stipulated that it was not necessary for the petitioner to use his personal automobile and there is nothing to show that the Government did not provide Wooster with means of transportation or that the Government did not reimburse him for the expense of traveling from Portsmouth to Hampton Roads.

Judgment will be entered for the respondent.

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