[DOWNLOAD] "Postal Telegraph Cable Company v. Adams." by Supreme Court of the United States ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Postal Telegraph Cable Company v. Adams.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 21, 1895
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 70 KB
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receipts derived therefrom, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, a tax is levied by a State on interstate commerce, such taxation amounts to a regulation of such commerce and cannot be sustained. But property in a State belonging to a corporation, whether foreign or domestic, engaged in foreign or interstate commerce, may be taxed, or a tax may be imposed on the corporation on account of its property within a State, and may take the form of a tax for the privilege of exercising its franchises within the State, if the ascertainment of the amount is made dependent in fact on the value of its property situated within the State, (the exaction, therefore, not being susceptible of exceeding the sum which might be leviable directly thereon,) and if payment be not made a condition precedent to the right to carry on the business, but its enforcement left to the ordinary means devised for the collection of taxes. The corporation is thus made to bear its proper proportion of the burdens of the government under whose protection it conducts its operations, while interstate commerce is not in itself subjected to restraint or impediment.