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Analysis Of Sales And Use Tax Exemptions -- With Comment As To More Uniform Applications, George D. Brabson
Analysis Of Sales And Use Tax Exemptions -- With Comment As To More Uniform Applications, George D. Brabson
Vanderbilt Law Review
There are, generally speaking, three broad areas of exemption understatutes imposing sales and use taxes in the United States. These are:
(a) Exemptions arising out of the immunities of governmental agencies and instrumentalities, or out of the exercise of governmental functions (b) Exemptions arising under the commerce clause of the federal constitution (c) Specific exemptions created out of governmental taxing policies or social economic considerations
Each of these areas of exemption has grown up somewhat haphazardly over a substantial period of time, and very largely as the result of shifting judicial opinion, rather than as a matter of consistent legislative …