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Famous Tax Quotes - Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It Too

2014-02-22

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

[The taxpayer] cannot retain his cake and consume it as well.

Eagan v. U.S., 80 F.3d 13 (1st Cir. 1996)

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