Key legal question
Whether the pension contributions for shareholder-employees were hidden dividend distributions for direct federal tax.
Extracted holding
The record was insufficient to determine whether comparable pension gaps existed for non-shareholder employees and whether the company had to fund them; the case was remanded for further fact-finding.
Extracted reasoning
A hidden distribution may exist if shareholder-employees are favored without equivalent treatment of others, but the decisive point was whether other employees also had compensable pension gaps. The current file did not establish this, especially for employee C.________ or others.