118 F.2d 348 | 7th Cir. | 1941
The petitioners, husband and wife, living together, filed a joint return of their income for the calendar year 1935. The wife had sustained losses and the husband had realized gains on the sale of capital assets. The joint return reported a net capital loss, which was the difference between the wife’s losses and the husband’s gains. The Commissioner refused to allow the losses and gains of the petitioners to be thus pooled and computed in the aggregate. The Board of Tax Appeals sustained the Commissioner.
This case is controlled by the opinion of the Supreme Court in the cases of Helvering v. Janney, and Gaines v. Helvering, 311 U.S. 189, 61 S.Ct. 241, 244, 85 L.Ed. -, both cases decided December 9, 1940, and holding that by section 51 (b) of the Revenue Act of 1934, 48 Stat. 697, 26 U.S.C.A. Int.Rev.Acts, page 683, “ * * * Congress intended to provide for a tax on. the aggregate net income and that the losses of one spouse might be deducted from the gains of the other; and that this applied as well to deductions for capital losses as to other deductions.”
Accordingly, the decision of the Board of Tax Appeals is reversed and the case is remanded for further proceedings in conformity with this opinion.
