Brown v. Commissioner

1975 T.C. Memo. 120, 34 T.C.M. 583, 1975 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 247
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United States Tax Court·Decided May 5, 1975·No. Docket Nos. 3793-70, 3795-70.·Unpublished

Opinion

WILLARD R. BROWN, AS TRANSFEREE OF ASSETS OF SILVER SPRINGS HOMES, INC., Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
WILLARD R. BROWN, AS TRANSFEREE OF ASSETS OF KAMAR DEVELOPERS, INC., Petitioner v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
Brown v. Commissioner
Docket Nos. 3793-70, 3795-70.
United States Tax Court
T.C. Memo 1975-120; 1975 Tax Ct. Memo LEXIS 247; 34 T.C.M. (CCH) 583; T.C.M. (RIA) 750120;
May 5, 1975, Filed
Stanley J. Goldberg, for the respondent.

FORRESTER

MEMORANDUM FINDINGS OF FACT AND OPINION

FORRESTER, Judge: In these consolidated cases, respondent has determined that petitioner is liable as a transferee of assets of Silver Springs Homes, Inc. (docket No. 3793-70), *248 and of Kamar Developers, Inc. (docket No. 3795-70), for deficiencies in income tax and additions to tax as follows:

Silver Springs Homes, Inc.
Taxable Year endingIncome TaxAdditions to tax
March 30,Deficiencyunder sec. 6653(a)
1963$20,356.55$1,017.83
196420,309.841,015.49
196520,369.621,018.48
Kamar Developers, Inc.
Taxable Year endingIncome TaxAdditions to tax
September 30,Deficiencyunder sec. 6653(a)
1961$32,624.60$ 1,631.23
196253,076.442,653.82
19633,249.58162.48
19641,279.8163.99
1965882.3144.11
1966574.3028.71

The sole issue for our decision is whether petitioner is liable as a transferee of assets under section 6901 1 for the income tax deficiencies and additions to tax under section 6653(a) determined against Silver Springs Homes, Inc. (Homes), and Kamar Developers, Inc. (Kamar).

FINDINGS OF FACT

Petitioner Willard R. Brown (Brown) resided at Peekskill, New York at the time the petition was filed. Brown filed his income tax returns on a calendar year basis*249 with the district director of internal revenue, New York, New York. Homes and Kamar were corporations formed under the laws of New York, both having their principal offices during the relevant years in issue at Shrub Oak, New York. Homes filed its corporate income tax returns (Form 1120) for its taxable years ended March 31, 1963, 1964 and 1965, with the district director of internal revenue, Albany, New York. Kamar filed its corporate income tax returns (Form 1120) for its taxable years ended September 30, 1961 through September 30, 1966, with the district director of internal revenue, Albany, New York.

During the years in issue, Brown was a 50-percent shareholder and corporate officer of both Homes and Kamar. The business of both Homes and Kamar was the construction and sale of houses. Homes ceased its construction and sales activity by the end of its fiscal year 1965. Kamar had completed building all its houses by the end of its fiscal year 1962; thereafter it operated primarily to collect payments on mortgages it had taken on the sale of its properties. Neither corporation kept adequate records of its financial affairs. No balance sheets, inventory records, general ledger accounts, *250 profit and loss statements or other indicia of the financial status of either corporation were prepared.

Brown's initial capital contribution to Homes in payment for his stock was $5,000.

Homes constructed a house for Brown's personal use and expended $46,047.74 and $2,947.82 during fiscal 1963 and 1964, respectively, on his behalf for the cost of building the house. Brown gave Homes no consideration specifically for the house.

Brown drew funds from Homes' checking account for his personal use without giving consideration therefor in the amounts of $2,747.74, $46,477.82 and $33,900 in fiscal 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively. Brown's drawings were in addition to salary.

At the closing of certain house sales, Brown received monies intended as payments to Homes but which Brown appropriated to his own use without bothering to deposit in Homes' account as follows: 1963--$205.85, 1964--$593.41, 1965--$720.80.

Brown also received the benefit of certain of Homes' payments for unsubstantiated travel, entertainment and automobile expenses in the amounts of $1,163.49 in fiscal 1963, $919.77 in fiscal 1964, and $405.81 in fiscal 1965.

On December 4, 1972, this Court entered an "Order

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