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Eleventh Circuit Deals IRS Defeat In Conservation Easement Struggle

Eleventh Circuit Deals IRS Defeat In Conservation Easement Struggle

The Hewitt court seems only to have held that the regulation was invalid because it failed the procedural regularity test. The Court never engaged with the issue of whether the interpretation (as opposed to the regulation) was a valid interpretation of the governing statute, § 170(h)(5)(A). There is thus the possibility that the IRS could or should still prevail if the interpretation is the best interpretation of the statute.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.