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Snyder Vs. Bettman

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 01, 1903

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  1. Provident Institution Vs. Massachusetts US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1867
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  2. Murdock Vs. Ward US Supreme Court · May 14, 1900
  3. U.S. 249 (1903) U.S. Supreme Court Snyder v. Bettman
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  4. U.S. 249 (1903) Snyder v. Bettman
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  5. for a corporate and public purpose. The case is, to a certain extent, the converse of those of the United States v. Perkins
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  6. U. S. 625 , and Plummer v. Coler
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  7. and (2) that the tax was not a tax upon the property itself, but upon its transmission by will or descent. In Plummer v. Coler
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  8. to lay such tax were wrongly decided. That question was exhaustively considered by this Court in Knowlton v. Moore
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  9. deceased, and not by the sum of the legacies or distributive shares. It was held, following the cases of United States v. Perkins
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  10. U. S. 625 , and Magoun v. Illinois
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  11. the devolution of property is determined by the laws of the several states. The principles laid down in Knowlton v. Moore
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  12. were reiterated in Murdock v. Ward
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  13. U. S. 139 , although the case was decided upon on the authority of Plummer v. Coler
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  14. upon documents connected with the devolution of the property of a deceased person. And yet, as stated in Knowlton v. Moore
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  15. by this Court, it does not seem to have been seriously questioned, and is a legitimate inference from McGuire v. Massachusetts
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  16. Pervear v. Massachusetts
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  17. Wall. 475, and Royall v. Virginia
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  18. U. S. 572 , 116 U. S. 580 . See also Ould v. Richmond
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  19. Humphreys v. Norfolk
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  20. the amount of the tax without being legally objectionable as a direct burden upon such property. Thus, in Van Allen v. The
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  21. a tax upon deposits was upheld though such deposits were invested in United States securities. Society for Savings v. Coite
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  22. Hamilton Co. v. Massachusetts
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  23. measured by its dividends, though such dividends were derived from interest upon government bonds. Home Ins. Co. v. New
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  24. to direct or indirect taxation by the United States. The doctrine has nowhere been more clearly stated than in Pollock v. Farmers'
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  25. determined that the property and revenues of municipal corporations are not subjects of federal taxation. Collector v. Day
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  26. United States v. Railroad
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  27. It is true that in United States v. Perkins
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  28. that a bequest of bonds of the United States was subject to a state inheritance tax. It is also true that, in Knowlton v. Moore
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  29. by death. On the other hand, the right of the United States to levy and inheritance tax, which was upheld in Knowlton v. Moore
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  30. that is, of taxation alone, vested in the government of the United States, was explicitly pointed out in Knowlton v. Moore
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  31. So also, the difference between the two had been previously accentuated in Magoun v. Illinois
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  32. the transmission or receipt of property on the occasion of death. This was clearly pointed out in United States v. Perkins
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  33. as tax upon the right of the municipality to receive the legacy. It was held, after great deliberation, in Knowlton v. Moore
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  34. in the hands of the executor before the municipality receives its legacy. It was not only directly held in Knowlton v. Moore
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  35. This conclusion was absolutely essential to the construction of the statute which was sustained in Knowlton v. Moore
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  36. because it is on the estate in the hands of the executor and not a burden on the recipient, when the case of Knowlton v. Moore
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  37. it may be lawfully imposed, the doctrine overthrows the rule announced by Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  38. more directly upon the right of the corporation to take the bequest than did the tax which was condemned in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  39. the bonds than is the tax in this case, on the right of the municipality to take, and yet, as I have said, in Pollock v. Farmers'
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  40. indirect, it could not be levied where there was no power to tax at all. The distinction was pointed out in Knowlton v. Moore
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  41. where, in referring to the statement of Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland
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  42. U.S. Supreme Court Snyder v. Bettman
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  43. of the United States v. Perkins
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  44. and Plummer v. Coler
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  45. In Plummer v. Coler
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  46. Knowlton v. Moore
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  47. of United States v. Perkins
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  48. and Magoun v. Illinois
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  49. of Plummer v. Coler
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  50. McGuire v. Massachusetts
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