Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, Volume 70U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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A. D. CUMMINS additional assessment additional tax agreement allowed amount April audit August August 20 authority automobile Bardic Black Star Line Brazil cent claim for refund Coal Company collector Commissioner of Internal contract court made special December decided that plaintiff defendant delivered the opinion Department determined E. W. Bliss Co entitled to recover executed February 24 findings of fact Fleet Corporation follows Food Administration Government income and profits interest Internal Revenue issued Judge July June 15 June 30 letter linters manufacture March ment mill Navy November operation Ordnance overassessment overpayment paid patent payment period petition plaintiff plaintiff filed Powhatan profits tax purchase Railway reference Remy Electric Reporter's Statement revenue act shares Shipping Board sold Soo company special findings Standifer Stat statute of limitations stockholders taxable taxpayer thereof tiff tion vessels waiver Westmount Wisconsin Central Railway
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Page 325 - Gross income" includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service, of whatever kind and in whatever form paid...
Page 256 - Aliens who are citizens or subjects of any government which accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against such government in its courts, shall have the privilege of prosecuting claims against the United States in the Court of Claims, whereof such court, by reason of their subject matter and character, might take jurisdiction.
Page 256 - Such suits shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the district in which the parties so suing, or any of them, reside or have their principal place of business in the United States, or in which the vessel or cargo charged with liability is found.
Page 256 - That in cases where if such vessel were privately owned or operated, or if such cargo were privately owned and possessed, a proceeding in admiralty could be maintained at the time of the commencement of the action herein provided for...
Page 505 - That the said party of the first part has hereby let and rented to the party of the second part, and the party of the second part...
Page 163 - If for any taxable year beginning after October 31, 1918, and ending prior to January 1, 1920, it appears upon the production of evidence satisfactory to the Commissioner that any taxpayer has sustained a net loss, the amount of such net loss shall under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary be deducted from the net income of the taxpayer...
Page 373 - ... (where the dues or fees of an active resident annual member are in excess of $10 per year) to any social, athletic, or sporting club or organization; or (b) as initiation fees to such a club or organization, if such fees amount to more than $10, or if the dues or membership fees (not including initiation fees) of an active resident annual member are in excess of $10 per year...
Page 175 - Commissioner shall add to the tax 25 per centum of its amount, except that when a return is filed after such time and it is shown that the failure to file it was due to a reasonable cause and not to willful neglect, no such addition shall be made to the tax.
Page 326 - dividends' as used in this title shall be held to mean any distribution made or ordered to be made by a corporation, . . . out of its earnings or profits accrued since March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and payable to its shareholders, whether in cash or in stock of the corporation, . . . which stock dividend shall be considered income, to the amount of its cash value.
Page 717 - The prima facie measure of damages for the breach of a contract is the amount of the loss which the injured party has sustained thereby. If the breach consists in preventing the performance of the contract, without the fault of the other party, who is willing to perform it, the loss of the latter will consist of two distinct items or grounds of damage, namely -. first, what he has already expended towards performance (less the value of materials on band) ; secondly, the profits that he would realize...