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Flint Vs. Stone Tracy Co.

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 13, 1911

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  1. Harwood Vs. Wentworth US Supreme Court · Apr 13, 1896
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  2. TwIn City Bank Vs. Nebeker US Supreme Court · May 10, 1897
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  3. Nicol Vs. Ames US Supreme Court · Apr 08, 1899
  4. Spreckels Sugar Refining Co. Vs. Mcclain US Supreme Court · Feb 23, 1904
  5. Provident Institution Vs. Massachusetts US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1867
  6. Patton Vs. Brady US Supreme Court · Mar 17, 1902
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  7. The Collector Vs. Day US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1870
  8. Western Union Telegraph Co. Vs. Kansas US Supreme Court · Jan 17, 1910
  9. Flint v. Stone
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  10. Tracy Co. - 220 U.S. 107 (1911) U.S. Supreme Court Flint v. Stone
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  11. Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107 (1911) Flint v. Stone
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  12. are properly classified with corporations in a tax measure such as the Corporation Tax. Spreckels Sugar Refining Co. v. McClain
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  13. cl. 1, of the Constitution. Pollock v. Farmers'
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  14. extend to state agencies and instrumentalities used for carrying on business of a private character. South Carolina v. United
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  15. to all coming within its operation, but is limited to geographical uniformity throughout the United States. Knowlton v. Moore
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  16. in due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. Although the power to tax is the power to destroy, McCulloch v. Maryland
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  17. of Congress to impose the tax, it is also within its power to enact effectual means to collect the tax. McCulloch v. Maryland
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  18. House and Senate, and approved by the President, and duly deposited with the State Department. Marshall Field & Co. v. Clark
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  19. of the act, as resting upon the doing of business, is sustained by the reasoning in Spreckels Sugar Ref. Co. v. McClain
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  20. be the holding unless this Court is prepared to reverse the income tax cases decided under the Act of 1894. Pollock v. Farmers'
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  21. P. 158 U. S. 637 . The Pollock case was before this Court in Knowlton v. Moore
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  22. The same view was taken of the Pollock case in the subsequent case of Spreckels Sugar Ref. Co. v. McClain
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  23. And in the same connection the Chief Justice, delivering the opinion of the court in Thomas v. United
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  24. is nothing in the Constitution requiring such taxes to be apportioned according to population. Pacific Ins. Co. v. Soule
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  25. Springer v. United
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  26. Spreckels Sugar Ref. Co. v. McClain
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  27. which are created for the purpose of carrying out governmental functions of the United States. M'Culloch v. Maryland
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  28. Osborn v. Bank
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  29. Railroad Co. v. Peniston
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  30. California v. Central
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  31. capacity, and the attempted taxation was an interference with the effectual exercise of such powers. In Osborn v. Bank
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  32. to which the Chief Justice refers were the only ones imposed in the Constitution upon the taxing power. In McCray v. United
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  33. was deemed sufficient by those who framed and adopted the Constitution. The courts may not add others. Patton v. Brady
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  34. States. Taxes upon rights exercised under grants of state franchises were sustained by this Court in Railroad Co. v. Collector
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  35. United States v. Erie
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  36. to reach such agencies was necessarily involved. The question was raised and decided in the case of Veazie Bank v. Fenno
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  37. the country, but the force of the reasoning which we have quoted has not been denied or departed from. In Thomas v. United
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  38. business transacted in the exercise of privileges afforded by the state laws in respect to corporations. In Nicol v. Ames
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  39. limit the exertion of authority which may be essential to national existence. In this connection, South Carolina v. United
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  40. and execute the laws, and similar governmental functions, cannot be taxed by the federal government. The Collector v. Day
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  41. United States v. Railroad
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  42. Ambrosini v. United
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  43. to geographical uniformity throughout the United States. This subject was fully discussed and set at rest in Knowlton v. Moore
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  44. In Bell's Gap R. Co. v. Pennsylvania
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  45. in some of the briefs assailing the validity of this tax that these cases have been modified by Southern R. Co. v. Greene
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  46. this measure of the amount of the tax do violence to the rule laid down in Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Ry. Co. v. Texas
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  47. U. S. 217 , nor Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Kansas
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  48. as such and to measure a legitimate tax upon the privileges involved in the use of such property. In Home Ins. Co. v. New
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  49. that case, in the course of the opinion, previous cases of this Court were cited, with approval. Society for Savings v. Coite
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  50. In Provident Institution v. Massachusetts
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