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· 12/8/1976

First Data Corp. v. State Tax Commission

Citations

  • 357 N.E.2d 933
  • 371 Mass. 444
  • 1976 Mass. LEXIS 1192

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “[a]s the [Massachusetts taxing] statute does not itself effectively define ‘manufacturing,’ . [Massachusetts] Legislature should be supposed to have adopted the common meaning of the word, as assisted by a consideration of the historical origins of the enactment”
  • data processing corporation is not manufacturer

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Judges: Braucher, Hennessey, Kaplan, Reardon, Wilkins

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