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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles H. Haynes, Executor, Estate of R. R. Haynes, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
    Docket No. 9584.
    Promulgated April 30, 1927.
    Amounts expended for ordinary and necessary repairs to property were proper deductions from gross income.
    
      Jolm L. Elliott, Esq., for the petitioner.
    
      W. F. Wattles, Esq., for the respondent.
    The Commissioner determined a deficiency in income tax for the calendar year 1921 in the amount of $362.02. The executor claims that the Commissioner erred in disallowing a deduction of $2,455.38 as an ordinary and necessary expense alleged to represent repairs to property owned by the estate of It. E. Haynes.
    FINDINGS OF FACT.
    Charles H. Haynes, Executor of the Estate of E. E. Haynes, is a resident of Cliffside, N. C., and was appointed executor of said estate in 1917.
    The estate is and has been since 1917 engaged in the business of operating farms, grocery stores, and renting property owned by it near Henrietta, N. C. During the calendar year 1921 the estate owned 193 buildings of rather cheap frame construction, consisting of farm and tenement houses, and outhouses, storehouses, warehouses, barns, cribs, and blacksmith shops. These buildings have been in use from ten to twenty years. During the year 1921 the estate, through the executor, expended a total of $2,455.38 in keeping these buildings in repair and in cleaning out wells and in repairing well tops. No additions or replacements of a major character were made to premises.
   OPINION.

Littleton :

The Board is of the opinion from a consideration of the evidence submitted that the expenditures totaling $2,455.38 were for ordinary repairs and upkeep of the properties of the estate and, as such, represent an ordinary and necessary business expense. The amount is therefore a proper deduction from gross income for the year 1921.

Judgment <wül be entered on 15 days notice, wider Rule 50.