Kenneth P. Kirchman and Budagail S. Kirchman, Leo P. Ayotte and Nancy C. Ayotte v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue

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• once a court determines that a transaction is a sham, no further inquiry into intent is necessary
• if a transaction lacks economic substance, “then expenses or losses incurred in connection with the transaction are not deductible”
• once a court determines that a transaction is a sham, no further inquiry into intent is necessary
• “The analysis of whether ... a transaction’s substance is that which its form represents ... does not necessarily require an analysis of a taxpayer’s subjective intent”
• “If a transaction’s form complies with the Code’s requirements for deductibility, but the transaction lacks the factual or economic substance that form represents, then expenses or losses incurred in connection with the transaction are not deductible.”
• option straddles entered to produce deductions with little risk of real loss

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).