The opinion
LIZZIE S. MASTICK, PETITIONER, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, RESPONDENT.
Mastick v. Commissioner
Docket No. 20509.
United States Board of Tax Appeals
18 B.T.A. 428 ; 1929 BTA LEXIS 2062 ;
November 30, 1929 , Promulgated
*2062 Property in California held by a decedent and his wife in joint tenancy since before the estate tax is not included in decedent's gross estate.
H. F. Chadbourne, Esq., for the petitioner.
Dugene Meacham, Esq., for the respondent.
STERNHAGEN
*428 OPINION.
STERNHAGEN: Respondent determined a deficiency of $1,500.06 in the estate tax of George H. Mastick's estate, of which petitioner was executrix, which deficiency results from the inclusion in the gross estate of community property and properties held in joint tenancy. The proceeding is submitted on the pleadings from which the admitted substantive facts are as follows:
1. George H. Mastick, the decedent, and Lizzie S. Mastick, the petitioner, were from and after their marriage domiciled in California.
2. Respondent included in the value of decedent's gross estate $66,000, being the value of two parcels of real property held since July 8, 1909, and since March 6, 1912, by decedent and Lizzie S. Mastick in joint tenancy with the right of survivorship in the survivor. The property acquired in 1909 was community property and the property acquired in 1912 was acquired with community funds.
*2063 Although the last mentioned fact, that this was community property, would, if standing alone, not justify the exclusion of any part of such property from the gross estate, ; affd., ; certiorari denied October *429 21, 1929, , yet the stipulation that the property was long before the taxing statute, held in joint tenancy brings the situation within , and requires its exclusion from the gross estate.
Judgment will be entered under Rule 50.