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PICOP vs.

CA
G.R. Nos. 106949-50; December 1, 1995

FACTS: In 1977, Picop entered into a merger agreement with the RPPM and
RMC. Under this agreement, the rights, properties, privileges, powers and
franchises of RPPM and RMC were to be transferred, assigned and conveyed to
Picop as the surviving corporation. The Board of Investments approved the
merger agreement in 1978. Immediately before merger effective date, RPPM
had over preceding years accumulated losses. In its 1977 Income Tax Return,
PICOP claimed half of RPPM's accumulated losses as a deduction against its
1977 gross income.

ISSUE: W/N Picop is entitled to deduct against current income net operating
losses incurred by RPPM.

RULING: No. To allow the deduction claimed by Picop would be to permit


one corporation or enterprise, Picop, to benefit from the operating losses
accumulated by another corporation or enterprise, RPPM. To grant Picop's
claimed deduction would be to permit Picop to shelter its otherwise taxable
income which had not been earned by the registered enterprise which had
suffered the accumulated losses. Thus, the claimed deduction must be
disallowed.

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