Mackinac Island Carriage Tours, Inc. v. CIR, 71-1452.
Decision Date | 09 February 1972 |
Docket Number | No. 71-1452.,71-1452. |
Citation | 455 F.2d 98 |
Parties | MACKINAC ISLAND CARRIAGE TOURS, INC., a Michigan corporation, Petitioner, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
Walter J. Murray, Detroit, Mich., for petitioner.
James H. Bozarth, Dept. of Justice, Tax Div., Washington, D. C., for respondent; Fred B. Ugast, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Richard W. Perkins, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on brief.
Before MILLER and KENT, Circuit Judges, and O'SULLIVAN, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case has been previously before this Court. 419 F.2d 1103 (6th Cir., 1970). The facts are sufficiently stated in the previous opinion:
Because of the inadequacy of the record this Court remanded the case to the Tax Court for further action. Additional witnesses were presented on behalf of the taxpayer. The Commissioner presented no further testimony.
From the record it appears that the petitioner, during the years involved, leased 55 touring licenses from its Class A stockholders; 3 livery licenses and 1 taxi license from its Class B stockholders, and 1 livery license and 2 taxi licenses from persons who were strangers to the corporation. It appears without any question that licenses are issued only to individuals. There is nothing in the record to indicate that the touring licenses leased from the Class A stockholders were of less value than the livery licenses and taxi licenses leased from Class B stockholders and strangers to the corporation. In fact the evidence forces the conclusion that the touring licenses should command at least as great a rental as the taxi and livery licenses1.
The Tax Court properly concluded that negotiations with nonstockholders for taxi and livery licenses were "arm's length" negotiations and that the amount paid was "required" to be paid and, therefore, properly deductible under Section 162(a) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 19542. The Tax Court found what appears to us to be an illusory difference between Class A and Class B stock which difference we find to be unsupported by the evidence. The only real difference between the classes of stock referred to participation in assets on dissolution.
The Tax Court properly stated the test to be applied in a quotation from Roland P. Place, 17 T.C. 199, at p. 203, aff'd. 199 F.2d 373 (6th Cir., 1952) cert....
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