Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Ashland Oil & Refining Co.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1938-11-18

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SIMONS, Circuit Judge. Upon the petition of the taxpayer, Swiss Oil Corporation, now merged with others under the name Ashland Oil Refining Company, we have two principal questions to decide. The first is whether the taxpayer in 1926 by liquidating another corporation, the stock of which it wholly owned, realized gain, notwithstanding an original purpose to acquire the liq…

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