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Porter Vs. Commissioner

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 13, 1933

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  1. Gwinn Vs. Commissioner US Supreme Court · Dec 05, 1932
  2. Burnet Vs. Guggenheim US Supreme Court · Feb 06, 1933
  3. United States Vs. Field US Supreme Court · Feb 28, 1921
  4. Heiner Vs. Donnan US Supreme Court · Mar 21, 1932
  5. Nichols Vs. Coolidge US Supreme Court · May 31, 1927
  6. U.S. 436 (1933) U.S. Supreme Court Porter v. Commissioner
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  7. U.S. 436 (1933) Porter v. Commissioner
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  8. F.2d 673. Its decision being in conflict with that of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Brady v. Ham
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  9. F.2d 454, and that of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia in Cover v. Burnet
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  10. of this case, may be deemed the substantial equivalent of, a general power of appointment by will. Cf. United States v. Field
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  11. Clapp v. Ingraham
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  12. property in which the decedent then held no interest or power of enjoyment must be excluded. They rely on Reinecke v. Northern
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  13. As the title was put beyond his control, we held these transfers not taxable. And petitioners assume, as held in White v. Erskine
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  14. be said that, if it stood alone, (a) would extend to the transfers brought into the gross estate by (d). United States v. Field
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  15. Tyler v. United
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  16. transfers in question would be to measure decedent's tax by property belonging to others, a thing condemned in Heiner v. Donnan
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  17. U. S. 312 , and Hoeper v. Tax
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  18. were fully consummated prior to the enactment of subdivision (d), and therefore would be confiscatory under Nichols v. Coolidge
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  19. U. S. 531 , and Heiner v. Donnan
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  20. power of revocation. It is true that the power reserved was not absolute, as in the transfer considered in Burnet v. Guggenheim
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  21. net estate. Thus was reached what it reasonably might deem a substitute for testamentary disposition. United States v. Wells
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  22. U. S. 116 . There is no doubt as to the power of Congress so to do. Page 288 U. S. 445 Reinecke v. Northern
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  23. Chase National Bank v. United
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  24. States, supra. Tyler v. United
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  25. Klein v. United
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  26. U.S. Supreme Court Porter v. Commissioner
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  27. Brady v. Ham
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  28. Cover v. Burnet
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  29. Cf. United States v. Field
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  30. Reinecke v. Northern
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  31. White v. Erskine
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  32. and Hoeper v. Tax
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  33. and Heiner v. Donnan
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  34. United States v. Wells
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