Excerpt from Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 6: Journal of the Mississippi State Bar; April, 1934 In Staley V. Vaughn,18 it was held that homesteads were not included in the exemptions of the Income Tax Law, and there was no Act of Congress adopting the homestead laws of Texas relative to the pay ment of income taxes. As it is not necessary to sue in order to collect income taxes, although that method might be employed, care Should be taken in selecting a method not to run into the reasoning of the fore going case. If a State grants exemptions and exempts the property from taxes, the taxes being a lien, (and such legislation is now being proposed to the Legislatures of some States) the State would be in the same posi tion as the Government now is when it relegates its tax to mortgages. If the state tax is not subordinate to exemptions, of course, the federal tax is not; but there is the difference that the state fixes a status in the spouse, or head of a family, and the subsequent federal tax claim against one spouse might not effect the rights of the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.