United States v. Robert R. Romero

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an argument that one is “not a ‘person’ and that the wages . . . [are] not ‘income’ is fatuous as well as obviously incorrect”
• describing the argument that wages are not income as \fatuous as well as obviously incorrect\
• finding that defendant was not subject to any prejudice as a result of the district court’s failure to read the indictment to him at arraignment because defendant had received a copy of the indictment and had an opportunity to read it before making his plea
• The contention that the taxpayer “was not a ‘person’ and that the wages he earned as a carpenter were not ‘income’ is fatuous as well as obviously incorrect.”
• compensation for labor or services, paid in the form of wages or salary, has been universally held by the courts to be income, and subject to income tax
• “Compensation for labor or services, paid in the form of wages or salary, has been universally, held by the courts of this republic to be income, subject to the income tax laws currently applicable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).