Items not deductible.
Section 31
SEC. 31. Items not deductible. — (a) General rule. — In computing net income no deduction shall in any case be allowed in respect of — (1) Personal, living, or family expenses; (2) Any amount paid out for new buildings or for permanent improvements, or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate; (3) Any amount expended in restoring property or in making good the exhaustion thereof for which an allowance is or has been made; or (4) Premiums paid on any life insurance policy covering the life of any officer or employee, or of any person financially interested in any trade or business carried on by the taxpayer, individual or corporate, when the taxpayer is directly or indirectly a beneficiary under such policy. (b) Losses from sales or exchanges of property. In computing net income no deduction shall in any case be allowed in respect of losses from sales or exchanges of property, directly or indirectly — (1) Between members of a family. For the purposes of this paragraph, the family of an individual shall include only his brothers and sisters (whether by the whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors, and lineal descendants; (2) Except in the case of distributions in liquidation, between an individual and a corporation more than fifty per centum in value of the outstanding stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by or for such liquidation, between two corporations more than fifty per centum in value of the outstanding stock of each of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by or for the same individual, if either one of such corporations, with respect to the taxable year of the corporation preceding the date of the sale or exchange was, under the law applicable to such taxable year, a personal holding company or a foreign personal holding company; (4) Between a grantor and a fiduciary of any trust; (5) Between the fiduciary of a trust and the fiduciary of another trust, if the same person is a grantor with respect to each trust; or (6) Between a fiduciary of a trust and a beneficiary of such trust.