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Famous Tax Quote #36 - Differences in Degree vs. Differences in Kind

2010-11-11

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Continuing our series on Famous Tax Quotes (quotes from court opinions with language that is colorful or that concisely states an important tax principle) today's tax quote is:

"Drawing the line" is a recurrent difficulty in those fields of the law where differences in degree produce ultimate differences in kind.

Harrison v. Schaffner, 312 U.S. 579 (1941).

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