Task: songer_typeiss

What follows is an opinion from a United States Court of Appeals.
Your task is to determine the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court. Choose among the following categories. Criminal and prisioner petitions- includes appeals of conviction, petitions for post conviction relief, habeas corpus petitions, and other prisoner petitions which challenge the validity of the conviction or the sentence or the validity of continued confinement. Civil - Government - these will include appeals from administrative agencies (e.g., OSHA,FDA), the decisions of administrative law judges, or the decisions of independent regulatory agencies (e.g., NLRB, FCC,SEC). The focus in administrative law is usually on procedural principles that apply to administrative agencies as they affect private interests, primarily through rulemaking and adjudication. Tort actions against the government, including petitions by prisoners which challenge the conditions of their confinement or which seek damages for torts committed by prion officials or by police fit in this category. In addition, this category will include suits over taxes and claims for benefits from government. Diversity of Citizenship - civil cases involving disputes between citizens of different states (remember that businesses have state citizenship). These cases will always involve the application of state or local law. If the case is centrally concerned with the application or interpretation of federal law then it is not a diversity case. Civil Disputes - Private - includes all civil cases that do not fit in any of the above categories. The opposing litigants will be individuals, businesses or groups.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
The underlying question in this tax case is whether whisky warehouse certificates owned by the Rosenbloom Finance Corporation, the taxpayer, were acquired by gift from its majority shareholder, Sol Rosenbloom. If acquired by gift, their value for ascertaining profit was their cost to the donor, $51,538.26. If not so acquired, their cost to the taxpayer was $269,494.97. The Board of Tax Appeals held the transaction was not a gift, and the Commissioner took this appeal. There is no dispute as to facts, and the question is wholly one of law. The facts, a full discussion thereof, and citations of authorities bearing on the case are set forth at full length in the findings and opinion of the Tax Board, and by reference thereto we avoid useless restatement.
The taxpayer paid Rosenbloom no money, stock, or other consideration therefor. It was a voluntary transfer of property without consideration or compensation therefor, and the form it took involved no ownership by any third party, and, whatever form or semblance it took, in substance and reality it was a transfer with the aim of avoiding tax. In our judgment it was a gift. The decree of the Tax Board will therefore be set aside and the record remanded for due procedure in accord herewith.

Question: What is the general category of issues discussed in the opinion of the court?
A. criminal and prisoner petitions
B. civil - government
C. diversity of citizenship
D. civil - private
E. other, not applicable
F. not ascertained
Answer:

Answer: B