Opinion

Brooklyn Nat. Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

  • 157 F.2d 450
  • 35 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 301
  • 1946 U.S. App. LEXIS 3369
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Jul 2, 1946
Status
Published
Author
Clark
On the bench
Hand, Clark
Cited by
24 cases

The opinion

CLARK, Circuit Judge

(concurring).

I agree with the result and with all of the opinion except for the two conjoined statements that Pembroke Realty & Securities Corp. v. Commissioner, supra, is indistinguishable, and that personally we are of the same mind as when it was announced. Though I did not participate in that case, I should suppose it distinguishable. There at least the statutory purpose had been accomplished by a distribution of earnings which went to swell the taxable income of the distributees; here, on the taxpayer’s contention, the corporate earnings would be strictly nontaxable. But if I am wrong and the distinction is not sufficient, I do not see, for my part, how the Pembroke principle could have stood as applied to these facts, whatever the decision of the Tax Court, in view of the clear command of the statute.

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