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Famous Tax Quotes - A Bundle of Sticks

2023-12-17

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

A common idiom describes property as a "bundle of sticks" -a collection of individual rights which, in certain combinations, constitute property. * * * State law determines only which sticks are in a person's bundle. Whether those sticks qualify as "property" for purposes of the federal tax lien statute is a question of federal law.

United States v. Craft, 535 U.S. 274 (2002).

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