Key legal question
Whether the partnership assets and the gain from the sale of the Y. property were private assets exempt from income tax for federal direct tax purposes.
Extracted holding
No. The assets were treated as business assets, so the capital gain could not benefit from the private-capital-gain exemption.
Extracted reasoning
A general partnership is presumed to be an income-oriented business with bookkeeping duties; its assets are business assets. The taxpayers did not rebut that presumption or prove a transfer to private assets, and their evidentiary objections failed.