Court denies deduction for unauthorized gift from trust
The Tax Court has denied a charitable contribution deduction for charitable gifts made from a testamentary trust when the trust did not specifically authorize such gifts. The Court reached its decision despite the fact that the trustees had been making such gifts and deducting them periodically for nearly 50 years and had obtained a state probate court judgment that such gifts had been permitted since the inception of the trust.
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