Case: Keystone Automobile Club, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Abbreviation: Keystone Automobile Club v. Commissioner
Decision Date: 1949-06-10
Docket Number: Docket No. 13738
Citation: 12 T.C. 1038
Volume: 12
Reporter: Reports of the Tax Court of the United States
Court: United States Tax Court
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Keystone Automobile Club, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Judges: 
Pages: 1038–1047

Head Matter:
Keystone Automobile Club, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Docket No. 13738.
Promulgated June 10, 1949.
R. Lester Moore, Esq., for the petitioner.
'William H. Best, Esq., for the respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION.
Oppee, Judge:
This proceeding is controlled by Chattanooga Automobile Club, 12 T. C. 967, from which it is indistinguishable. No basis exists for limiting the action of respondent under the doctrine of estoppel where appropriate enforcement of the law requires a change of position on his part. Agricultural Securities Corporation, 39 B. T. A. 1103, 1114; affd. (C. C. A., 9th Cir.), 116 Fed. (2d) 800; Stern Bros. & Co. v. Commissioner (C. C. A., 8th Cir.); 108 Fed. (2d) 309; affd., 311 U. S. 617. On the authority of Chattanooga Automobile Club, supra,
Decision will be entered for the respondent.