Case Name: Ralph Kitchen, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Court: United States Board of Tax Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1928-04-27
Citations: 11 B.T.A. 855
Docket Number: Docket No. 12655
Parties: Ralph Kitchen, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Volume: 11
Pages: 855–856

Head Matter:
Ralph Kitchen, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Docket No. 12655.
Promulgated April 27, 1928.
Veggo Lyngby, Esq., for the petitioner.
Philip M. Clark, Esq., for the respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION.
Lansdon:
The evidence fails to convince us that the petitioner's rooms in the hotel and the meals furnished himself and wife were solely for the convenience of his employer. The record discloses that there was an assistant manager of the hotel and does not show that the wife of the petitioner rendered any service for the convenience of the hotel. Except in the case of a minister of the gospel, there is no provision in the Revenue Act of 1921, which is the law applicable here, for excluding from income the reasonable value of meals and lodging received in addition to cash compensation. To allow the claim of the petitioner would in effect permit him to deduct his personal living expenses from his gross income. The action of the Commissioner in adding the reasonable value of the rooms and meals supplied to the petitioner by the hotel company is approved.
Judgment will be entered for the respondent.