Taxation in Massachusetts: A Treatise on the Assessment and Collection of Taxes, Excises and Special Assessments Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsFinancial Publishing Company, 1922 - 821 pages |
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... enactment in controversy violates the constitutional restrictions upon the power of taxation but not those upon the police power , it may be of great importance in deciding whether the enactment is constitutional to determine in the ...
... enactment in controversy violates the constitutional restrictions upon the power of taxation but not those upon the police power , it may be of great importance in deciding whether the enactment is constitutional to determine in the ...
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... enacted for practical ends . They must be administered in large part by the plain citizens who are elected assessors from time to time in the various municipalities . They should be con- strued and interpreted so far as possible so as ...
... enacted for practical ends . They must be administered in large part by the plain citizens who are elected assessors from time to time in the various municipalities . They should be con- strued and interpreted so far as possible so as ...
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... enact a law impairing the obliga- tion of contracts , a statute applicable to the collection of taxes thereafter assessed which affects contracts entered into before its enactment is clearly constitutional , for the sovereign power to enact ...
... enact a law impairing the obliga- tion of contracts , a statute applicable to the collection of taxes thereafter assessed which affects contracts entered into before its enactment is clearly constitutional , for the sovereign power to enact ...
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... enacted a tax on all property , real and personal , on its yearly value ( St. 1692-3 c . 4 ) . This did not produce the desired revenue and during the next seven years various methods of taxation were experimented with among them a tax ...
... enacted a tax on all property , real and personal , on its yearly value ( St. 1692-3 c . 4 ) . This did not produce the desired revenue and during the next seven years various methods of taxation were experimented with among them a tax ...
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... enacted in Massachusetts during the colonial 13 Commonwealth v . People's Five Cents Savings Bank , 5 Allen 428 , 437 ( 1862 ) ; Opinion of the Justices , 195 Mass . 607 , 611 ( 1908 ) . 14 Williams v . Brookline , 194 Mass . 44. 46 ...
... enacted in Massachusetts during the colonial 13 Commonwealth v . People's Five Cents Savings Bank , 5 Allen 428 , 437 ( 1862 ) ; Opinion of the Justices , 195 Mass . 607 , 611 ( 1908 ) . 14 Williams v . Brookline , 194 Mass . 44. 46 ...
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Popular passages
Page 198 - A charity, in the legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift, to be applied consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their minds or hearts under the influence of education or religion, by relieving their bodies from disease, suffering, or constraint, by assisting them to establish themselves in life, or by erecting or maintaining public buildings or works, or otherwise lessening the burdens of government.
Page 54 - must be reasonable, not arbitrary, and must rest upon some ground of difference having a fair and substantial relation to the object of the legislation, so that all persons similarly circumstanced shall be treated alike.
Page 89 - And while the public charges of government, or any part thereof, shall be assessed on polls and estates, in the manner that has hitherto been practised, in order that such assessments may be made with equality, there shall be a valuation of estates within the commonwealth, taken anew once in every ten years at least, and as much oftener as the general court shall order.
Page 525 - A contract of insurance is an agreement by which one party for a consideration promises to pay money or its equivalent, or to do some act of value to the assured, upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest.
Page 196 - Property of the commonwealth, except real estate of which the commonwealth is in possession under a mortgage for condition broken...
Page 470 - Income accumulated in trust for the benefit of unborn or unascertained persons or persons with contingent interests, and income accumulated or held for future distribution under the terms of the will or trust...
Page 628 - ... made or Intended to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 621 - Whenever any person or corporation shall exercise a power of appointment derived from any disposition of property made either before or after the passage of this act, such appointment when made shall be deemed a transfer taxable under the provisions of this act...
Page 621 - ... in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power and had been bequeathed or devised by such donee by will...