James Sterling Yard Ivins (December 23, 1885Secretary's Fourth Report, Harvard College Class of 1907. – May 25, 1960) was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court) from 1924 to 1925.Report of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, Volume 1, p. 3 (Government Printing Office, 1926).
A New York city accountant and an authority in tax work,"Newly Appointed Tax Board To Be Organized At Once", The Baltimore Sun (July 4, 1924), p. 6. Ivins was the deputy attorney general of New York from 1915 to 1923, and served as director of the New York Income Tax Bureau."James S. Y. Ivins Dies; Noted Attorney", Hartford Courant (May 27, 1960), p. 53.
He was one of the original twelve members appointed to the United States Board of Tax Appeals by President Calvin Coolidge, and one of a group of seven appointed "from the public".Harold Dubroff and Brant J. Hellwig, U.S. Tax Court: an Historical Analysis (2015). Ivins notified the court of his intent to resign in 1925, testifying before a Congressional committee that his resignation was prompted by the low salary given to board members."Statement of James S. Y. Ivins", Revenue Revision, 1925: Hearings, Parts 1-14 (1925), p. 703.
Following his service on the board, Ivins and fellow member Percy W. Phillips joined with tax lawyer Richard Barker to form the law firm of Ivins Phillips Barker.
Ivins retired from legal practice in 1953, and moved to Marathon, Florida. He died in a hospital in Miami, Florida in 1960, at the age of 74. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.https://www58.homepage.villanova.edu/james.edward.maule/taxcourt/Ivins.htm
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