DocketNumber: Docket No. 6128-76.
Citation Numbers: 41 T.C.M. 682, 1981 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 737, 1981 T.C. Memo. 1
Filed Date: 1/5/1981
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 11/20/2020
MEMORANDUM FINDINGS OF FACT AND OPINION
SCOTT,
Additions to Tax Under | ||
Year 2 | Deficiencies | Sec. 6653(b), I.R.C. 1954 |
1968 | $ 22,466.07 | $ 11,223.03 |
1969 | 40,767.94 | 20,383.97 |
1970 | 39,134.47 | 19,567.23 |
The issue for decision in this case is the amount of deficiencies in tax and additions to tax due from petitioners for each of the years 1968, 1969, and 1970. 3
*739 FINDINGS OF FACT
The facts in this case with respect to the amount of petitioners' taxable income in each of the years here in issue have been stipulated by the parties. The Court finds these facts as agreed to by the parties.
Paul F. Gray, Jr. (petitioner), resided in Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the time of the filing of his petition in this case. He filed a joint Federal income tax return with his wife, Wilma, for each of the calendar years 1968, 1969, and 1970 with the Director, Internal Revenue Service Center, Chamblee, Georgia.
The following schedule shows petitioner's assets and liabilities at the end of each of the years 1967 through 1970 and his net worth increases, corrected taxable income, taxable income reported, and additional tax income:
Dec 31, 1967 | Dec 31, 1968 | Dec 31, 1969 | Dec 31, 1970 | |
Assets | ||||
Cash on Hand | $ 70,000.00 | $ 70,000.00 | $ 48,000.000 | $ 48,000.00 |
Cash in Banks | 5,312.57 | 2,137.22 | 1,168.43 | 2,202.67 |
U.S. Treasury | ||||
Notes | 30,000.000 | 30,000.000 | 30,000.00 | 0 |
United Bank | ||||
Stock | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12,500.00 |
Chattanooga | ||||
Trans Co. | ||||
Stock | 500.00 | 500.00 | 500.00 | 500.00 |
Inventory | 0 | 0 | 1,172.79 | 1,263.50 |
Notes | ||||
Receivable | 13,500.00 | 5,000.000 | 0 | 0 |
Real Estate | 103,627.89 | 106,514.06 | 156,183.58 | 402,137.64 |
Buildings | 157,500.000 | 300,978.92 | 453,546.38 | 648,933.19 |
Furniture and | ||||
Fixtures | 2,862.95 | 14,638.66 | 59,838.96 | 67,536.26 |
Machinery and | ||||
Equipment | 0 | 18,216.12 | 19,749.51 | 19,749.51 |
Improvements | 866.00 | 16,090.01 | 37,637.37 | 55,877.37 |
Automobiles | 6,168.00 | 6,168.00 | 6,150.00 | 6,029.43 |
Total | ||||
Assets | $ 390,337.41 | $ 570,242.99 | $ 813,947.02 | $ 1,264,729.57 |
Liabilities | ||||
Loans | $ 93,219.59 | $ 194,218.18 | $ 357,018.12 | $ 694,807.31 |
Accts Payable | 0 | 168.89 | 10,503.84 | 8.74 |
Depreciation | ||||
Reserve | 7,920.46 | 19,279.34 | 51,293.26 | 97,278.52 |
Total | ||||
Liabilities | 101,140.05 | 213,666.41 | 418,815.22 | 792,094.57 |
Net Worth | $ 289,197.36 | $ 356.576.58 | $ 395,131.80 | $ 472,635.00 |
Prior Years | ||||
Net Worth | $ 289,197.36 | $ 356,576.58 | $ 395,131.80 | |
Increase in | ||||
Net Worth | 67,379.22 | 38,555.22 | 77,503.20 | |
Plus personal | ||||
Living Exp. | 20,501.22 | 35,484.02 | 18,372.55 | |
Adjusted Gross | ||||
Income | 87,880.44 | 74,039.24 | 95,875.75 | |
Less: Itemized | ||||
Deductions | 2,062.54 | 3,185.60 | 3,601.16 | |
Exemptions | 4,200.00 | 4,200.00 | 4,375.00 | |
Corrected | ||||
Taxable | ||||
Income | 81,617.90 | 66,653.64 | 87,899.59 | |
Less: Taxable | ||||
Income per | ||||
return | 28,074.07 | (3,083.12) | (18,242.07) | |
Additional | ||||
Taxable | ||||
Income | $ 53,543.83 | $ 69,736.76 | $ 106,141.66 |
*740 Petitioner is the same person who was the defendant in the criminal case of
On October 26, 1979, respondent filed a motion for partial summary judgment alleging that petitioner, by reason of his conviction under section 7201, was collaterally estopped from denying in this case that he wilfully filed false and fraudulent income tax returns for each of the years 1968, 1969, and 1970 with the intent to evade and defeat a part of the taxes due*741 and owing by him for those years and that by reason of such fraud a part of the underpayment of petitioner's tax for each of those years in due to fraud within the meaning of
Respondent's determination of deficiencies for each of the years 1968, 1969, and 1970 was based on a net*742 worth computation. Petitioner in the petition alleged many errors in this computation.However, the parties have now agreed to all elements of the net worth computation and we have set forth above all elements of this agreed computation with the resulting increases in the taxable income as reported by petitioners.
OPINION
Since all factual aspects of the net worth computation have been agreed to, the amount of tax due on the basis of the resulting net income is a matter of computation under Rule 155.
Since we have refused to reconsider the order dated November 27, 1979, granting respondent's motion for partial summary judgment, we hold that petitioner is liable for the additions to tax for fraud under
1. Unless otherwise indicated, all statutory references are to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended and in effect in the years in issue.↩
2. In as separate statutory notice of deficiency, respondent determined a deficiency in tax and an addition to tax for petitioners' calendar year 1972. Originally the year 1972 was included in a single petition with the years 1968, 1969, and 1970. However, on October 29, 1980, the parties filed a joint motion to sever the year 1972 from the years 1968, 1969, and 1970, and assigned a separate docket number to that case. By order dated October 29, 1980, this motion was granted and the year 1972 was severed from the above-entitled case and assigned docket number 22381-80. The parties disposed of the issues involved for the year 1972 by settlement and the Court on December 19, 1980, entered a decision in docket number 22381-80.↩
3. The issue of whether petitioner Paul F. Gray, Jr., was liable for an addition to tax for fraud under
4. On October 14, 1980, petitioner filed with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee a "Motion in the Form of a Petition by the Defendant for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis Vacating and Setting Aside His Conviction and Permitting Him to Withdraw His Pleas of Guilty." At the time of the trial of this case on October 28 and 29, 1980, no action had been taken by the Court on this motion. Subsequently, the Court was informed that on November 10, 1980, this motion was denied by the District Court and that petitioner filed a notice of appeal from that denial to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on November 20, 1980.↩