Case Name: Harold T. and Alexander White, Executors, Estate of William Augustus White, Petitioners, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Court: United States Board of Tax Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1929-04-12
Citations: 15 B.T.A. 1417
Docket Number: Docket No. 16053
Parties: Harold T. and Alexander White, Executors, Estate of William Augustus White, Petitioners, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Volume: 15
Pages: 1417–1419

Head Matter:
Harold T. and Alexander White, Executors, Estate of William Augustus White, Petitioners, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Docket No. 16053.
Promulgated April 12, 1929.
Chandes C. Parlin, Esq., for the petitioners.
Eugene Meaoham, Esq., for the respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION.
MoRRis:
The taxability of gifts fully consummated by a decedent prior to June 2, 1924, is controlled by Blodgett v. Holden, 275 U. S. 142, and Untermyer v. Anderson, 276 U. S. 440, in which it was held that insofar as the gift-tax provisions of the Revenue Act of 1924 were applicable to bona fide gifts not made in anticipation of death and fully consummated prior to June 2, 1924, said provisions were arbitrary and invalid under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
The record does not show when the two gifts of $100 each were made to Mrs. William Emerson and Alexander F. Moffat. However, since the specific exemption of $50,000 clearly exceeded the amount of all gifts made subsequently to June 2, 1924, no tax was due under the return as filed, and, therefore, the proposed deficiency based upon said return must be disapproved.
Judgment will be entered for the petitioners.