Court Opinion

ID: 6805120
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-23 18:45:57.490304+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:03:24.507404
License: Public Domain

Smith :
This is a proceeding for the redetermination of a deficiency in income tax for the year 1921 in the amount of $380.62. The point in issue is whether the petitioner should be required to account for $3,000 bonus paid to him in January, 1921, as of the year 1920, or as of the year' 1921.
FINDINGS OF FACT.
The petitioner is an employe of the Fergus Falls Woolen Mill, Fergus Falls, Minn. He was employed at a salary of $3,600 a year. On January 6, 1921, the board of directors of the woolen mill voted him a bonus of $3,000 for the year 1920. He returned this as income of the year 1920. The respondent has excluded it from the income of 1920 and included it in*the petitioner’s income for the year' 1921. The petitioner kept his books and made his returns on the cash receipts and disbursements basis.

Judgment will he entered for the respondent.

Considered by Littleton.