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Famous Tax Quotes - Congress Can "label a thing income and tax it"

2011-03-09

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Continuing our series on Famous Tax Quotes (quotes from court opinions with language that is colorful or that concisely states an important tax principle) today's tax quote is:

. . . [A]lthough the "Congress cannot make a thing income which is not so in fact," it can label a thing income and tax it, so long as it acts within its constitutional authority, which includes not only the Sixteenth Amendment but also Article 1, Sections 8 and 9.

Murphy v. IRS, D. C. Circuit 493 F3d 170 (2007)

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