Learned Hand Quotes About Taxes

Quotes about: Taxes

• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Patriotic, Government

• In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

  Learned Hand

  Two, America, Taxation

• There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

  Learned Hand

  Affair, Lows, Sinister

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

• Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

  Learned Hand

  Patriotic, Advice, Pay

  Helvering v. Gregory (1934)

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