Opinion

Morehead v. Commissioner

  • 42 B.T.A. 851
  • 1940 BTA LEXIS 955
Court
United States Board of Tax Appeals
Filed
Sep 27, 1940
Status
Published
Author
Mellott
On the bench
Tyson, Mellott, Haeron, Disney, Agree
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 10.7%

The opinion

Mellott,

dissenting: The corporate trustee was not a person “having a substantial adverse interest in the disposition * * * of the corpus or the income therefrom” (Reinecke v. Smith, 289 U. S. 172 ); the *857 settlor was a beneficiary; both the “distributable income” and the corpus could be distributed to her at any time that her income from other sources “should be insufficient to properly provide for” her support, maintenance or benefit (see discussion of “benefit” in Helvering v. Hormel, 111 Fed. (2d) 1, and note the use of the same word in the heading of section 167); and she, like Mary E. Wenger, 42 B. T. A. 225, could have the income and, if necessary, the corpus distributed to her at any time. In the Wenger case we held that the petitioner was taxable under both sections 166 and 167. (42 B. T. A. 232.) A similar holding, I think, should be made here.

Disney, HaeRon, and OrrER agree with this dissent.

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