| United States. Court of Claims - Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 792 pages
...Trust Co. v. jSmietanka, 255 US 509, 518, has defined the meaning of the word " income " as follows : " Income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, provided it be understood to include profit gained through a sale or conversion of capital assets." It can not... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - Law reports, digests, etc - 1958 - 1044 pages
...case. But in Eisner v. Macomber the court defined "income" for income tax purposes, as follows : * * * the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, provided it be understood to include profit gained through a sale or conversion of capital assets * * *. We are... | |
| Law - 1921 - 510 pages
...Profits on Sale of Stock or Bonds as Income.— The United States Supreme Court has defined "income" as, "The gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, provid1 it be understood to include profits gained through sale or conversion of capital assets " Eisner... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 1048 pages
...businesses, commerce, or sales, or dealings in property," and the United States Supreme Court defines income as the "gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined." Doyle v. Mitchell Brothers Co., 247 US 179, 185, 38 Sup. Ct. 467, 469 (62 L. Ed. 105) and authority... | |
| 1925 - 822 pages
...found it necessary to determine just what income is, and defined the term in the following words: "For income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, and here we have combined operations of capital and labor."1 No authority of previous decisions was... | |
| Electronic journals - 1914 - 552 pages
...process and the transaction is indubitably "business" and the gains derived therefrom "income," for "income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, and here we have combined operations of capital and labor." The Court called attention to the alleged... | |
| Robert Hiester Montgomery - Auditing - 1927 - 880 pages
...to restore the capital value that existed at the commencement of the period under consideration.10 Income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor. or from both combined, provided it be understood to include profit gained through a sale or conversion of capital assets." One of the... | |
| Godfrey Nicholas Nelson - Excess profits tax - 1918 - 478 pages
...of the act of 1009; and the gains derived from it are properly and strictly from that business; fot "income" may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined, and here we have combined operations of capital and labor. As to the alleged inequality of operation... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 624 pages
...arising from corporate activities. As was said in Stratton's Independence v. Howbert, 231 US 399, 415: "Income may be defined as the gain derived from capital, from labor, or from both combined." Understanding the term in this natural and obvious sense, it cannot be said that a conversion of capital... | |
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