Jury Will Decide Merit Of $43 Million Tax Refund Claim By Zaxby’s Cofounder
All Townley has to do is to get it to the jury (which the judge seems to be allowing) and the jury will also have some tendency to help the hometown boy. Notwithstanding there, the mega dollars involved may put some of the good old boys on the jury off.
Tax Court Allows Only 2.5% Of Claimed Easement Charitable Deduction
Significantly, none of petitioner’s experts who testified at trial opined as to the fair market value of the unencumbered easement property. Rather, they determined the net present value of the subsurface aggregate and ignored the regulatory definition of fair market value. The regulations require us to determine fair market value on the basis of the price that a willing buyer and a willing seller would agree to
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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.