...twenty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows : ^" Inc^udes gains, profits and income derived from salaries, wages...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever,...

...liability from $6,843.93 to $222,408.32, was due largely to his omission from his original return 1 "SEC. 22. GROSS INCOME. "(a) GENERAL DEFINITION. —...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...grounds, but rejected the claim as to the balance. The Internal Revenue Code, 26 USC, provides : § 22. Gross income — (a) General definition. "Gross...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...prospect. The evidence here negatives any such intent. So the plaintiff 1 Revenue Act of 1936, Section 22. Gross Income. (a) General Definition. — "Gross...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of nny business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source...

...sufficiently similar to the facts in this case to be persuasive. Section 22 (a) of the Code provides : GENERAL DEFINITION. — "Gross income" includes gains,...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...purposes of this title (except as otherwise provided in section 233) the term ' gross income ' — "(a) Includes gains, profits, and income derived from salaries,...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...the proper construction of the income tax statutes. Section 22 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code says: (a) General Definition. — "Gross income" includes...; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, 123 C. Cls. Opinion of the Court or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit,...

...purposes of section 22 (a) which provides in its broad terms for the inclusion in gross income of * * * gains, profits, and income derived from salaries,...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...District of Columbia, the compensatioD received as such) , of whatever kind and in Opinion of the Court. whatever form paid, or from professions, vocations,...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever....

...this * * * the term ' gross income ' — "(a) Includes gains, profits, and income derived from * * * trades, businesses, commerce, or sales, or dealings...rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever."...