Leslie Stephen Jones, counsel for the defense of Timothy McVeigh in the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, donated his papers in the case to the University of Texas. There were hundreds of thousands of documents, stored in 171 boxes. Mr. Jones claimed a $300,000 charitable deduction for that donation (well, actually, he only claimed a $294,877 deduction if you want to be precise). The IRS didn’t approve. Neither did the tax court. Yesterday, in Jones v. Commissioner, the Tenth Circuit yesterday also refused to allow the deduction.
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