Internal Revenue Bulletin

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Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 1956 - Tax administration and procedure

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Page 8 - In the case of mines, oil and gas wells, other natural deposits, and timber, a reasonable allowance for depletion and for depreciation of improvements, according to the peculiar conditions in each case...
Page 2 - As used in this subsection, the term "farm" includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal, and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards.
Page 25 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "agricultural labor" includes all service performed — (1) on a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife...
Page 28 - To constitute receipt in such a case the income must be credited or set apart to the taxpayer without any substantial limitation or restriction as to the time or manner of payment or condition upon which payment is to be made, and must be made available to him so that it may be drawn at any time, and its receipt brought within his own control and disposition.
Page 22 - Amounts received as a pension, annuity or similar allowance for personal injuries or sickness resulting from active service in the armed forces of any country...
Page 13 - ... has the effect of the distribution of a taxable dividend, then there shall be taxed as a dividend to each distributee such an amount of the gain recognized under paragraph (1) as is not in excess of his ratable share of the undistributed earnings and profits of the corporation accumulated after February 28, 1913. The 'remainder, if any, of the gain recognized under paragraph (1) shall be taxed as a gain from the exchange of property.
Page 25 - All interest paid or accrued within the taxable year on indebtedness, except on indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry obligations (other than obligations of the United States issued after September 24, 1917, and originally subscribed for by the taxpayer) the interest on which is wholly exempt from taxation under this subtitle.
Page 2 - ... the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. (2) In the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of a...
Page 6 - Service performed by a duly ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church in the exercise of his ministry or by a member of a religious order in the exercise of duties required by such order...
Page 80 - For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" means — (1) Any officer of a corporation; or (2) Any individual who, under the usual common law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of an employee...

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