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AMBAC INDUSTRIES, INC. v. C. I. R.

No. 135, Docket 73-1775.

487 F.2d 463 (1973)

AMBAC INDUSTRIES, INC. (formerly American Bosch Arma Corporation), Appellant, v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Brayer, Jr., New York City, for appellant.

Donald H. Olson, Atty., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Meyer Rothwacks, Richard W. Perkins, Attys., Tax Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.

KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Although we agree with the result reached by the Tax Court, unfortunately we cannot abide by the course taken to arrive at that decision. Accordingly, we are constrained to enter the labyrinthine structured tax laws, knowing full well the difficult and tortuous path that may lie ahead. Learned Hand so eloquently observed:

In my own case the words of such an act as the Income Tax, for example, merely dance before my eyes in a meaningless...

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