History Of Your Federal Income Tax
memek The courts have generally held that direct taxes are restricted to taxes on people (variously called capitation, poll tax or head tax) and property. (Penn Mutual Indemnity Corp. v. C.I.R., 227 F.2d 16, 19-20 (3rd Cir. 1960).) All other taxes are typically called “indirect taxes,” basically tax an event, rather than person or property by itself. (Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548, 581-582 (1937).) What turned out to be a straightforward limitation on the power of the legislature based on the subject of the tax proved inexact…
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