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Appeal of AMERICAN BOX CO.
    Docket No. 5418.
    Submitted December 2, 1925.
    Decided February 17, 1926.
    Corporations held affiliated.
    
      Henry J. Richardson, Esq., for the taxpayer.
    
      Percy B. Crewe, Esq., for the Commissioner.
    Before Gratjpner, Trammell, and Phillips.
    Taxpayer appeals from the determination of a deficiency of $4,95.5.93, income and profits tax for the fiscal year ended May 31, 1920, and alleges as error the refusal of the Commissioner to- consolidate the net income and invested capital of the taxpayer and the American Veneer Co., claimed to be affiliated corporations.
    findings of fact.
    The taxpayer is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Ohio, with its principal office at Cleveland. During the year in question it was engaged in the manufacture of wooden packing cases.
    The American Veneer Co. is a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Alabama in 1916 for the purpose of manufacturing lumber for use in the manufacture of wooden packing cases, and during the year in question was engaged in such business.
    It was organized By F. H. Rose, the secretary of the taxpayer, pursuant to a resolution adopted at a meeting of the directors of the taxpayer held' May 2, 1916, which resolution authorized the secretary to incorporate such a company and subscribe for $20,000 of its capital stock on behalf of the taxpayer. The same resolution authorized F. H. Rose to subscribe for $5,000 of the capital stock in his own name.
    Upon its organization' it issued 250 shares of its capital stock, 198 to the taxpayer, 50 to F. H. Rose, and the remaining two shares to qualify directors.
    In 1917, 60 additional shares were issued. During the year in question in this proceeding the outstanding shares of the capital stock of the taxpayer and of the American Veneer Co. were owned as follows:
    
      
    
    F. H. Eose was a director and the secretary and treasurer ox both corporations. His wife, Mary Upson Eose, owned 90 shares of stock in the American Box Co. and was the sister of the principal stockholder of the Upson Nut Co. At stockholders’ meetings Eose voted the stock of his wife, of the Upson Nut Co., and of D. A. Upson and W. J. Upson. He was also authorized to vote the stock of the American Veneer Co. owned by the American Box Co.
    F. B. Stevens was a director and president of the two corporations.
    D. E. Dangler was a director and vice president of both corporations, and voted the stock of Clara, Euth, and David Dangler.
    W. D. B. Alexander was president of the National Screw & Tack Co., a stockholder of the American Box Co. J. E. Williams was secretary to Alexander and voted the stock of Alexander and the National Screw & Tack Co. at stockholders’ meetings.
    The only salaried officer of either corporation was F. H. Eose, whose salary was paid by the American Box Co. Most of the products of the American Veneer Co. were used by the American Box Co. The total assets of the American Veneer Co. as of May 31, 1920, were approximately $50,000, and on that date it owed the American Box Co. about $30,500 for money advanced it for expenses and operations. No interest was paid on this indebtedness.
    The American Box Co., during the fiscal year ended May 31, 1920, owned or controlled, through closely affiliated interests, substantially all the stock of the American Veneer Co.
   DECISION.

The deficiency should be computed upon the basis of a consolidated return of the taxpayer and the American Veneer Co. for the year involved. Final determination will be settled on 15 days’ notice, under Rule 50.