STATE TAX COMM. v. JOHN HANCOCK MUT. LIFE INS. CO.


341 Mass. 555 (1960)

170 N.E.2d 711

STATE TAX COMMISSION vs. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Sontag, Assistant Attorney General, for State Tax Commission.

Albert L. Hyland, for the taxpayer.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

The State Tax Commission appeals from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board granting to the insurance company an abatement of a part of the company's insurance excise assessed in 1957. This excise is imposed by G.L.c. 63, § 20 (as amended by St. 1941, c. 509, § 5, and as affected by St. 1943, c. 531, § 2), at the rate of "one quarter of one per cent upon the net value of all policies in force on December thirty-first of the year preceding...

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