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Taxation -Income From Irrevocable Funded Insurance Trusts - Constitutionality Of Statute

Michigan Law Review

The settlor created irrevocable trusts to pay premiums on policies of insurance issued on his life in favor of irrevocably-named beneficiaries. Held, that sec. 219 (h), Rev. Acts 1924, 1926, making income from trusts taxable to the settlor, is constitutional. Burnet v. Wells, (U. S. 1933) 53 Sup. Ct. 7.61.1