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United States Vs. Stewart

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Nov 12, 1940

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  1. United States Trust Co. Vs. Helvering US Supreme Court · Apr 17, 1939
  2. Old Colony Railroad Co. Vs. Commissioner US Supreme Court · Feb 15, 1932
  3. Willcuts Vs. Bunn US Supreme Court · Jan 05, 1931
  4. Cope Vs. Cope US Supreme Court · Jan 19, 1891
  5. Pacific Co., Ltd. Vs. Johnson US Supreme Court · Apr 11, 1932
  6. Murdock Vs. Ward US Supreme Court · May 14, 1900
  7. U.S. 60 (1940) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Stewart
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  8. U.S. 60 (1940) United States v. Stewart
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  9. a) of the Revenue Act of 1928. Applying Willcuts v. Bunn
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  10. is here on certiorari to resolve a conflict of the decision below (9 Cir., 106 F.2d 405) with Stern Brothers & Co. v. Commissioner
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  11. is a generic term amply broad to include capital gains for purposes of the income tax. Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka
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  12. true that Congress will be presumed to have used a word in its usual and well settled sense. Old Colony Railroad Co. v. Commissioner
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  13. the bonds is clearly different from income derived from dealings or transactions in the bonds. As stated in Willcuts v. Bunn
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  14. the gain may be regarded as 'the creation of capital, industry and skill.' Tax Commissioner v. Putnam
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  15. farm loan bonds. The later act can therefore be regarded as a legislative interpretation of the earlier act ( Cope v. Cope
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  16. entitled Page 311 U. S. 65 to great weight in resolving any ambiguities and doubts. Cf. United States v. Stafoff
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  17. delegated cannot estop the United States even by an affirmative undertaking to waive or surrender a public right. Utah v. United
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  18. Wilber National Bank v. United
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  19. Page 311 U. S. 71 of Congressional purpose as to make inapposite the application of the reasoning of Willcuts v. Bunn
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  20. statute. Yet those who seek an exemption from a tax must rest it on more than a doubt or ambiguity. Bank of Commerce v. Tennessee
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  21. U.S. 416, 163 U. S. 423 . Exemptions from taxation cannot rest upon mere implications. United States Trust Co. v. Helvering
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  22. U. S. 57 , 307 U. S. 60 . As stated by Mr. Justice Cardozo in Trotter v. Tennessee
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  23. Pacific Co., Ltd. v. Johnson
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  24. those situations where the subject matter of the exemption was directly, not indirectly or remotely, involved. Murdock v. Ward
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  25. Hale v. State
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  26. See Helvering v. New
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  27. See Agricultural Securities Corp. v. Commissioner
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  28. U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Stewart
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  29. Applying Willcuts v. Bunn
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  30. Stern Brothers & Co. v. Commissioner
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  31. Merchants' Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka
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  32. Tax Commissioner v. Putnam
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  33. Cf. United States v. Stafoff
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  34. Utah v. United
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  35. of Willcuts v. Bunn
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  36. Trotter v. Tennessee
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  37. United States v. Freeman
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  38. Bank of Commerce v. Tennessee
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