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United States Vs. County of Fresno

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 25, 1977

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  1. Van BrocklIn Vs. Tennessee US Supreme Court · Mar 01, 1886
  2. Esso Standard Oil Co. Vs. Evans US Supreme Court · May 04, 1953
  3. Kern Limerick, Inc. Vs. Scurlock US Supreme Court · Feb 08, 1954
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  4. United States Vs. Rickert US Supreme Court · Feb 23, 1903
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  5. United States v. County
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  6. of Fresno - 429 U.S. 452 (1977) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. County
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  7. of Fresno, 429 U.S. 452 (1977) United States v. County
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  8. private citizen and as long as it is the possession or use by the private citizen that is being taxed. City of Detroit v. Murray
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  9. United States v. City
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  10. United States v. Township
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  11. on real property renters only if the owner is exempt from taxation does not make it discriminatory, United States v. City
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  12. s immunity from state taxation inherent in the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, see M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  13. and that it was therefore forbidden by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution. E.g., M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  14. citizen's usufructuary interest in the government land and improvements alone that is being taxed. ( City of Detroit v. Murray
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  15. for Appellants 11. Consequently, the Government argues, the tax is forbidden by the doctrine announced in M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  16. and affirm the judgment below. II The Government relies principally on the landmark case of M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  17. In later years, however, the Court departed from this interpretation of M'Culloch. In James v. Dravo
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  18. U. S. 150 , or until Congress declares otherwise. Id. at 302 U. S. 161 . Similarly, in Graves v. New
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  19. the Court sustained a nondiscriminatory tax on the income of a federal employee, thereby overruling Dobbins v. Commissioners
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  20. Alabama v. King
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  21. Boozer, 314 U. S. 1 (1941), overruling Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi
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  22. Page 429 U. S. 462 Finally, and, for the purposes of this case, dispositively, in City of Detroit v. Murray
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  23. Corp., 355 U. S. 489 (1958), United States v. City
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  24. of Detroit, 355 U. S. 466 (198), and United States v. Township
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  25. and so long as it is the possession or use by the private citizen that is being taxed. See also Esso Standard Oil Co. v. Evans
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  26. This rule returns Page 429 U. S. 463 to the original intent of M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  27. California -- the tax is not for that reason discriminatory. In this respect, this case is governed by United States v. City
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  28. properly attributed to their possessory interest. In this respect, the taxes are valid even under United States v. Allegheny
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  29. Id. at 322 U. S. 187 -188. (Emphasis added.) This statement ripened into holdings in United States v. City
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  30. of Detroit, supra at 355 U. S. 472 , and United States v. Township
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  31. Under the rule of United States v. Allegheny
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  32. County and United States v. City
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  33. inconsequential. The two types of interests are equally taxable. In conclusion, as the Court said in City of Detroit v. Murray
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  34. Wheat. 316. In such circumstances, the Congress is the proper agency, as we pointed out in United States v. City
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  35. Together with United States et al. v. County
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  36. are tax-exempt land by reason of the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, e.g., United States v. Allegheny
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  37. the practical equivalent of a tax -- from the post exchange and to remit it to the State Tax Commission. United States v. Mississippi
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  38. law required it to be charged to and collected from the United States by the seller. See First Agricultural Nat. Bank v. Tax
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  39. Comm'n, 392 U. S. 339 (1968). Kern-Limerick, Inc. v. Scurlock
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  40. held the Department of the Navy to be the purchaser and the tax to be thus unenforceable. See also Federal Land Bank v. Bismarck
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  41. Panhandle Oil Co. v. Mississippi
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  42. income tax as it applied to income generated from property leased from the Federal Government). See also United States v. Rickert
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  43. The single arguable departure from this principle since 1937 is United States v. Allegheny
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  44. Ibid. Insofar as United States v. Allegheny
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  45. property may never be imposed on a private party who is using it, that decision has been overruled by United States v. City
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  46. beneficial personal or business interest. The tax would thus run afoul at least of the Supremacy Clause. M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  47. the other hand, if the State taxes the income of all its residents equally, federal employees must pay the tax. Graves v. New
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  48. Graves v. New
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  49. a discrimination between users of property that would not otherwise exist, the Michigan taxes upheld in United States v. City
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  50. U.S. Supreme Court United States v. County
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