Algoma Lumber Co. v. Commissioner

APPEAL OF ALGOMA LUMBER CO.

Algoma Lumber Co. v. Commissioner

Docket No. 841.

United States Board of Tax Appeals

2 B.T.A. 511 ; 1925 BTA LEXIS 2366 ;

September 8, 1925 , Decided Submitted July 10, 1925 .

*2366 Frank G. Butts, Esq., for the taxpayer.

Benjamin H. Saunders, Esq., for the Commissioner.

*511 Before SMITH and LITTLETON.

This appeal is from a determination of deficiencies in income and profits tax for the years 1917 and 1918 in an amount less than $10,000. In its petition the taxpayer alleges that the Commissioner has erroneously disallowed the deduction from gross income of each of the years 1917 and 1918 of losses sustained as a result of beetle damage *512 in its timber reserves. No evidence in support of the allegation of error was introduced at the hearing.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The taxpayer is a California corporation with its principal office at Los Angeles. In an audit of its income-tax returns for the years 1917 and 1918 the Commissioner disallowed the deduction of $5,982.32 and $8,466.52, respectively, as loss from beetle damage. This loss was predicated upon a claimed value of timber at March 1, 1913, in excess of cost.

DECISION.

The determination of the Commissioner is approved.

ARUNDELL not participating.