Attorneys, assists members with all aspects of tax legislation. This panel is about 45 minutes. So our first panel is going to examine portions of the history of the joint committee on taxation. And our first speaker is george yin and his paper deals with the joint committees role in the codification of the tax laws. George . Thank you very much, and thanks to the u. S. Capital and Historical Society for sponsoring the event and to the joint committee, tom and the rest of the staff per organizing it and inviting me to participate. Its wonderful to see so many familiar faces and join in celebrating the 90th anniversary of this great institution. I thought i would use my time to mention just a few of the surprises i have discovered in researching the history of the joint committee. Truth be told, virtually everything ive learned has been very interesting, if not surprising. In addition to satisfying our curiosities, the story of the joint committee is important because the staff of this
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courts. all of the other directives there seem to me to be addressed to the secretary. why should this one had been directed to the courts? when you say in the same manner, he goes about doing it in the same manner, but the courts simply accept that manner of proceeding, but nonetheless adjudicate the cases. i think they have a three-part answer to that, justice scalia. first, the tebs does not say that the secretary shall assess and collect taxes in the same manner. it just says that it shall be assessed in the same manner as a tax, without addressing any party particularly. collecting it in the same manner as a tax. well, the assessment the other two parts of the answer are as a practical matter, i don t think there s any dispute in this case that if the anti-injunction act does not apply, this penalty, the section 5000a penalty will, as a practical matter, be assessed and collected in a very different manner from other taxes and other tax penalties. there are three