Opinion

Max M. Barken Drug Co. v. Commissioner

  • 3 B.T.A. 277
  • 1926 BTA LEXIS 2716
Court
United States Board of Tax Appeals
Filed
Jan 8, 1926
Status
Published
Author
Lansdon
On the bench
Lansdon, Sternhagen, Aiotndell
Cited by
1 cases
Authority
More cited than 60.7%

The opinion

OPINION.

Lansdon:

The issue to be determined in this appeal is whether charging the amount of $1,994.27 to the personal account of Leo Barken during the year in question was in fact a record of actual withdrawals or a mere bookkeeping adjustment without effect on either gross or net income. The taxpayer alleges that it charged Barken’s personal account with the seeming shortages for the sole purpose of balancing its books, asserts that it made no corresponding credit entries on its profit and loss account indicating that such amounts were regarded as distributions of profits, and denies that said sums were withdrawn from the business by its president for his own personal use or for any other purpose.

No convincing evidence was adduced to prove whether the apparent shortages resulted from errors in accounting or from actual withdrawals by Barken that were not ticketed and taken into the accounts as such when made. Barken testified that he believed that most of the seeming shortage was caused by erroneously treating amounts *279 paid in on charge accounts as cash receipts and by subsequent errors in making adjusting entries which had the effect of showing that certain amounts were taken into receipts both as cash for merchandise sold and 'as payments on customers’ charge accounts. On the record the Board must approve the determination of the Commissioner.

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