Abbott Laboratories International Company, a Delaware Corporation v. United States

PER CURIAM. Plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, appeals from an adverse judgment of the District Court in its suit to recover taxes paid by its two foreign subsidiaries (Limitadas) to Argentina and Colombia, the countries of organization, respectively. Plaintiff claims- the taxes so paid should be allowed as credits under § 131 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, 26 U.S.C.A. § 131. The parties are agreed that a taxpayer is entitled to a deduction only upon a showing that he comes within the terms of an applicable statute, and although under the laws of Argentina and Columbia a Limitada is not a corporation and its members are taxed in the same manner as members of a partnership are taxed in the United States, the plaintiff concedes that it is a corporation under the United States Internal Revenue Code. Plaintiff’s position below and here is that, as a stockholder of the Limitadas, it paid, through the Limitadas, the taxes imposed by Argentina and Columbia, which it contends constituted a paid foreign tax credit under § 131.