DocketNumber: Docket No. 2006-69 SC.
Citation Numbers: 28 T.C.M. 1120, 1969 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 84, 1969 T.C. Memo. 212
Filed Date: 10/13/1969
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 11/20/2020
Memorandum Findings of Fact and Opinion
DAWSON, Judge: Respondent determined a deficiency of $129.63 in petitioners' Federal income tax for the year 1967.
Respondent has conceded that petitioners are entitled to the full amount ($851) claimed as a medical expense deduction on their joint Federal income tax return for 1967. The only issue remaining for decision is whether petitioners are entitled to charitable deductions under
Most of the facts are stipulated. The stipulation of facts and exhibits attached thereto are incorporated herein by this reference.
Petitioners are husband and wife whose legal residence was Chicago, Illinois, at the time the petition was filed in this proceeding. Petitioners filed their joint Federal income tax return for 1967 with the Midwest Service Center, Kansas City, Missouri.
From January 1, 1967 to November 7, 1967, petitioners and their family resided at 611 W. Broadway, Anaheim, California. From November 8, 1967 through December 31, 1967, petitioners and their family 1121 resided at 5139 South Minard, Chicago, Illinois. In November 1968, petitioners and their family moved to 5039 South Leclaire Avenue where they now reside.
During 1967 petitioners' children attended the following schools:
Name | Age | Grade | School | From | Through |
Paul | 16 | 10th | Mater Dei H.S. | Jan. | Oct. |
Kennedy-St. Paul H.S. | Nov. | Dec. | |||
Peter | 12 | 8th | St. Boniface | Jan. | Oct. |
St. Jane's | Nov. | Dec. | |||
Michael | 9 | 4th | St. Boniface | Jan. | Oct. |
St. Jane's | Nov. | Dec. | |||
Patrice | 11 | Public school | 1967 | ||
Jane | 7 | 3rd | St. Boniface | Jan. | Oct. |
St. Jane's | Nov. | Dec. |
Petitioners and their family were members of the parish of St. Boniface of Anaheim, California, a Roman Catholic church, from January through October 1967. Thereafter, for the remainder of 1967, they were members of the parish of St. Jane de Chantal.
On their 1967 joint Federal income tax return petitioners claimed as deductions the following amounts as charitable contributions paid to the designated organizations:
St. Jane's | $ 250 |
St. Boniface | 360 |
Mater Dei | 345 |
Bro. of St. Patrick | 5 |
East Anaheim L. League | 13 |
St. Paul School | 15 |
Maryknowell (sic) | 24 |
St. Micheal's (sic) | 15 |
First Christian Church, East Anaheim | 75 |
Total | $1,102 |
During 1967 petitioners maintained a joint checking account at the Security First National Bank of Anaheim, California. During the latter part of 1967 petitioner John J. L. Ryan maintained a checking account at the Garfield Ridge Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago.
In 1967 petitioners paid $172.75 to the St. Jane de Chantal School for tuition for their children Peter, Michael and Jane. They paid a total of $184.15 to St. Boniface in 1967 for tuition, registration fees, books and milk for their children. They also paid Mrs. Clara Faust, St. Boniface's organist, the amount of $10 for playing the organ at the wedding of one of their daughters.
In 1967 petitioners paid to Mater Dei a total of $329.89 for tuition, registration fee and books for their son Paul. The amount of $15 was paid to St. Paul High School.
Petitioners' son, Peter, was a member of a team in the East Anaheim Little League. They contributed $13 to the East Anaheim Little League in 1967.
In October 1967, petitioners paid*88 Mrs. Robert Hunt $40 for the use of a hall at the First Christian Church of East Anaheim for their daughter's wedding reception.
In addition to the $356 allowed by respondent, petitioners are entitled to the following deductions: (1) a charitable contribution of $50 to the Mater Dei for the athletic fund; (2) charitable contributions of $60 paid in cash to St. Boniface; (3) a charitable contribution of $13 to the East Anaheim Little League, a qualified organization under
To be allowable as charitable deductions under
It is well settled that the cost of educating a child is a personal, family expense. James A. McLaughlin 51 T.C. 1122 233 (1968), affirmed per curiam - F. 2d -
We have determined that petitioners should be allowed a portion ($50) of the $100 paid to Mater Dei for a contribution to the athletic fund and for football tickets. We hold that the amount attributable to the football tickets is a nondeductible personal expenditure, and that only that portion attributable to the athletic fund is deductible. See
The other miscellaneous amounts, *90 such as those paid to Mrs. Clara Faust and Mrs. Robert Hunt, were nondeductible personal expenses and were properly disallowed by respondent.
To reflect the concession made by respondent and the conclusions reached herein,
Decision will be entered under Rule 50.