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Famous Tax Quotes - A Slender Reed

2024-09-27

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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:

Inferences from legislative history cannot rest on so slender a reed. Moreover, the views of a subsequent Congress form a hazardous basis for inferring the intent of an earlier one.

U.S. v. Price, 361 U.S. 304 (1960)

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