Opinion

Olsen v. Helvering

  • 88 F.2d 650
  • 19 A.F.T.R. (P-H) 184
  • 1937 U.S. App. LEXIS 3236
Court
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Filed
Mar 8, 1937
Status
Published
Author
Swan
On the bench
Hand, Swan
Cited by
90 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.3%

"[T]he notice is only to advise the person who is to pay the deficiency that the Commissioner means to assess him; anything that does this unequivocally is good enough."

How later courts described this case

  • "[T]he notice is only to advise the person who is to pay the deficiency that the Commissioner means to assess him; anything that does this unequivocally is good enough."
  • looking at whether taxpayers were misled to determine adequacy of notice of deficiency

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

SWAN, Circuit Judge

(concurring).

Accepting the majority opinion in Bogardus v. Commissioner, 88 F.(2d) 646 , as establishing the taxability of the payment in question, I concur.

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