Case: Mattie Belle Wallace, Administratrix, Estate of Robert Wallace, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent
Abbreviation: Wallace v. Commissioner
Decision Date: 1930-09-16
Docket Number: Docket No. 30120
Citation: 20 B.T.A. 862
Volume: 20
Reporter: Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
Court: United States Board of Tax Appeals
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Mattie Belle Wallace, Administratrix, Estate of Robert Wallace, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Judges: 
Pages: 862–863

Head Matter:
Mattie Belle Wallace, Administratrix, Estate of Robert Wallace, Petitioner, v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent.
Docket No. 30120.
Promulgated September 16, 1930.
Alan G. Van Fleet, Fsq., for the petitioner.
Franh T. Horner, Esq., for the respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION.
Sea well:
This proceeding involves a deficiency in estate tax in the amount of $2,781.19, and has for its only issue the question of whether the community interest of the wife in the decedent's estate is subiect to estate tax under the provisions of the Revenue Act of 1921.
Robert Wallace (hereinafter referred to as decedent) died in San Francisco on May 9, 1924. All of the property in his estate was community property of himself and wife, Mattie Belle Wallace, and all of the said property was acquired by decedent and his wife subsequent to their marriage.
The Commissioner included the entire value of the community property in the gross estate of the decedent for estate-tax purposes, whereas the petitioner contends that the community interest of the wife is not subject to the estate tax, for the reason that the wife's interest in the community property came to her not as part of her husband's estate, but as belonging to her under the laws of California. The action of the Commissioner is affirmed on the authority of Griffith Henshaw, Executor, 12 B. T. A. 1441; affd., Henshaw v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 31 Fed. (2d) 946; certiorari denied, Henshaw v. Lucas, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 280 U. S. 43a.
Judgment will he entered for the respondent.