The Federal court of claims hands down Caterpillar Tractor v. United states: judge Marion T. Bennett writes, “It is hornbook [elementary] law that informal publications all the way up to revenue rulings are simply guides to taxpayers, and a taxpayer relies on them at his peril.”

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“Law of the Jungle”
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References:

Alan Stang, Tax Scam: How the IRS Swindles You and What You Can Do About It!, (Alta Loma, California: Mt. Sinai Press, 1988), 110.

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