Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-08-02 | Page 7 | Canada and Tainted Taxes

J 1 CANADA AND TAINTED TAXES 11 Y S. S F F. F CHRONICLE The con that Bobby Burns so y O O w wad J some rr a the gie us gle-us us ti If fo UI sels eels as see us us Is Is soon to tobe tobe tobe be conferred upon us b by the Judicial judicial judicial Judi judi- cial commission of the privy council council coun coun- cil the highest court in the British Empire The commission now has before it a decision involving the moral turpitude of ot government involved in taxing the income of a bootlegger bootleg bootleg- ger a practice to which we have become accustomed In the United States through usage Canada sought to follow the precedent of the United States In such matters by taxing taking the the income of ol Cecil R R. Smith a bootlegger bootleg bootleg- ger get of Windsor Canada Smith ob ob- ob I V 9 on the ground that his In Income Income income In- In come was derived through moral turpitude and that government cannot cannot cannot can can- not be a partner to crime The su supreme supreme su- su supreme preme court of Canada upheld Smiths Smith's objection and the appeal went to the Judicial commission There Lord Halda ie has expressed the opinion that the government should follow the precedent set in inthe Inthe inthe the case of a burglar who sought an accounting from his partner partner both both were cast Into prison Lord Darling replied that government should say to a pirate Because you are a pirate I shall shan tax you if I catch you pirating I shall hang you The decision when issued al although although although al- al though not legally binding on our tax agents will at lea least st inform us how others regard the taxing of tainted money