Second Circuit WorldCom Decision Evokes Nostalgia For Dialup
I don’t know how much that claim is worth to the government. Even at pennies on the dollar it would be few hundred grand. More significantly there was an order for the IRS to refund $38,297,513 in excise tax. The excise tax is the 3% excise on telephone services that was passed as an emergency war measure. I
Federal Land Patent Barring Property Tax Argument Fails In Wisconsin
A lot of land in the United States traces back to federal land patents. We don’t want to think too hard about how it is that the federal government came to own the land. It was not always a pretty process. One of the reasons taxes were low in the 19th Century was that the government had quite a bit of revenue from land sales.
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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.