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respondent.

c: Petitioner is a domestic corporation engaged in the real estate business as brokers, managing
agents and administrators. It filed its income tax return for its fiscal year ending September 30, 1957.
Upon verification of its return, CIR, disallowed four items of deduction and assessed against it an income
tax deficiency plus interests. The CTA upheld CIR's disallowance of one of the items of deduction, the
payment to Mr. Hoskins, (founder and controlling stockholder) the amount of P99,977.91 representing
50% of supervision fees earned. Petitioner appeals the CTA¶s ruling arguing that payment of the same
was allowed via a resolution of the Petitioner¶s Board of directors.

 w/n the payment of Mr. Hoskin¶s supervision fees may be deductible from the company¶s income
tax

c
 CTA decision affirmed.

Mr. Hoskins owned 99.6% of petitioner¶s total authorized capital stock and was also a salesman-broker,
receiving a 50% share of the sales commissions earned apart from his monthly salary, bonuses and
allowances. CTA correctly ruled that the additional payment of P99,977.91 



 

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Conditions precedent to the deduction of bonuses to employees: (1) payment of the bonuses is in fact
compensation; (2) must be for personal services actually rendered; and (3) bonuses, when added to the
salaries, are 'reasonable when measured by the amount and quality of the services performed with
relation to the business of the particular taxpayer'. (Kuenzle v. CIR)

Factors in determining the reasonableness of a given bonus as compensation: (1) amount and quality of
the services performed with relation to the business (2) payment must be 'made in good faith' (3)
character of the taxpayer's business, the volume and amount of its net earnings, its locality, the type and
extent of the services rendered (4) salary policy of the corporation (5) size of the particular business (6);
'the employees' qualifications and contributions to the business venture' (7) general economic conditions'.
(Kuenzle v. CIR)

Allowing or disallowing as deductible expenses the amounts paid to corporate officers by way of bonus is
determined by the CIR exclusively for income tax purposes.

Mr. Hoskins is practically the sole owner of C. M. Hoskins, but he chose to incorporate his business with
himself holding virtually absolute control thereof with 99.6% of its stock with four other nominal
shareholders holding one share each. Having chosen to use the corporate form with its legal advantages
of a separate corporate personality as distinguished from his individual personality, the corporation so
created, i.e., petitioner, is bound to conduct itself in accordance with corporate norms and comply with its
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