Judgment affirmed, with costs. Facile categorization of taxable transactions as "voluntary" or "involuntary" does not progress the analysis. Even property taxes and income taxes involve voluntary acts — the decision to own property or to earn, rather than to forego, income.
Retroactivity provisions in tax statutes, if for a short period, are generally valid, but the constitutional analysis...
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