We're a Hap-py Fam-il-y

摘要

The Internal Revenue Service says the partnership that owned Barney, the purple dinosaur popularized by public television, wrongly deducted all at once a $65 million payment in 2001 to the suburban Dallas mother listed as the creator. In a U.S. Tax Court lawsuit, Lyons Partnership disputes the IRS position that the "contract termination payment" to Sheryl Leach should have been amortized over many years.