· 4/9/2018
United States v. Corey Grant
Citations
- 887 F.3d 131
How courts have described this case
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- noting that the taxpayer entered into option transactions “only after his accountant and tax advisor . . . had investigated their tax benefits” and that “[t]he bulk of trading . . . occurred in November, December and January”
- applying “primarily for profit” test to straddle transactions, under § 165(c)
- applying \primarily for profit\ test to straddle transactions, under Sec. 165(c)
- “It is doubtful that trading could ever have been sustained at economical levels without the associated tax benefits.”
- “We need only look to the policies and history of section 165(c)(2
- primarily for profit standard relaxed where congressionally encouraged transactions are involved
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Judges: Greenaway, Cowen, Padova
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