Case ID: bta_10/html/1175-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Trammell:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Union Savings Bank, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
    Docket No. 10135.
    Promulgated March 6, 1928.
    
      George M. Stanton, Esq., for the petitioner.
    
      J. E. Marshall, Esq., for the respondent.
   OPINION.

Trammell:

The petitioner claims a deduction of $2,800 because this amount was charged off its books during the taxable year in order to make its savings account balance. There is no allegation or evidence that any loss was actually sustained by the petitioner during the taxable year. If the books were out of balance it might have been due entirely to the fact that they were improperly kept, but mere bookkeeping entries in and of themselves do not establish a loss.

Judgment will he entered for the resfondent.