Case ID: bta_5/html/0198-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Trammell:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

M. J. Hellmers, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
    Docket No. 4680.
    Decided October 27, 1926.
    
      M. J. Hellmers pro se.
    
      Henry Ravenel, Esq., for the respondent.
   Trammell:

This is a proceeding for the redetermination of a deficiency in income tax for the calendar year 1922 in the amount of $41.49. The deficiency arises through the action of the Commissioner in disallowing as an expense or loss $1,087.15, the amount paid in excess of the contract price of building a home.

FINDINGS OF FACT.

The taxpayer, during 1922, entered into a contract with a contractor to build a double house, one-half of which was for rental purposes. The contractor charged the taxpayer approximately $8,100 for the completed house. When completed the house was not worth in excess of $6,800.

The taxpayer took as a deduction in'his income-tax return the difference between $6,800 and the cost which he was required to pay the contractor.

Judgment will be entered for the Commissioner.