Mr. Justice Burton delivered the opinion of the Court. The question here is whether, for federal income tax purposes, an individual taxpayer was entitled to deduct, from his gross income, an attorney’s fee paid for contesting the amount of his federal gift tax. For the reasons hereafter stated we hold that he was not. In 1940, Joseph T. Lykes, petitioner herein, gave to his wife and to each o…
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