United States v. Lewis
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united-states-v-lewis-252-3057510
title:
United States v. Lewis
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United States v. Lewis, 340 U.S. 590 (1951), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming the claim of right doctrine in income tax law. A lower court had ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to issue a refund to man who, after other litigation found his bonus to have been miscalculated, was forced to return some of his income from a previous year to his former employer. The Supreme Court ruled that because the man had complete control of the money, his tax payment wa
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1951 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lewis
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