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Created page with "The courts have generally held that direct taxes are limited to taxes on people (variously called capitation, poll tax or head tax) and property. (Penn Mutual Indemnity Organization. v. C.I.R., 227 F.2d 16, 19-20 (3rd Cir. 1960).) All other taxes are typically called "indirect taxes," within their tax an event, rather than person or property per se. (Steward Machine Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548, 581-582 (1937).) What seemed to be a straightforward limitation on the power o..."
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