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Famous Tax Quotes - Memory Dulled by a Penitentiary Term Served

2020-11-03

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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:

[A witness’s testimony] was in the main a repetition of “I don’t remember”. * * * The witness’s memory may have been dulled by a penitentiary term served as the result of income tax troubles of his own which were totally unrelated to the case at bar.

U.S. v. Hall, 307 F.2d 238 (10th Cir. 1962)

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