northwestern
cement
argued
october
decided
february
together
williams
state
revenue
commissioner
stockham
valves
fittings
certiorari
georgia
argued
october
net
income
exclusively
interstate
operations
foreign
corporation
may
subjected
state
taxation
provided
levy
discriminatory
properly
apportioned
local
activities
within
taxing
state
forming
sufficient
nexus
support
pp
two
cases
state
imposed
foreign
corporation
income
tax
computed
rate
portion
net
income
corporation
interstate
business
reasonably
attributable
business
activities
within
state
case
corporation
within
taxing
state
office
one
salesmen
actively
solicited
within
state
orders
purchase
corporation
products
orders
accepted
filled
corporation
head
office
another
state
neither
case
question
raised
reasonableness
apportionment
net
income
amount
final
assessment
made
held
taxes
violate
either
commerce
clause
due
process
clause
federal
constitution
pp
entire
net
income
corporation
generated
interstate
well
intrastate
activities
may
fairly
apportioned
among
tax
purposes
formulas
utilizing
aspects
interstate
affairs
pp
state
taxes
involved
regulations
interstate
commerce
sense
term
discriminate
subject
interstate
commerce
undue
burden
levied
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
pp
showing
formula
applied
state
determining
portion
taxpayer
total
income
attributable
activities
within
state
subject
interstate
commerce
multiple
taxation
require
bear
fair
share
tax
burden
pp
since
taxes
involved
based
upon
net
profits
earned
within
taxing
state
state
utilized
valid
constitutional
channel
make
interstate
commerce
pay
way
spector
motor
service
distinguished
pp
taxes
involved
violate
due
process
clause
since
levied
portion
taxpayer
net
income
arises
activities
within
taxing
state
activities
form
sufficient
nexus
satisfy
due
process
requirements
pp
reversed
joseph
maun
argued
cause
appellant
brief
earl
smith
ben
johnson
deputy
assistant
attorney
general
georgia
argued
cause
petitioner
brief
eugene
cook
attorney
general
broadus
zellars
hugh
gibert
robert
walling
deputy
assistant
attorneys
general
perry
voldness
assistant
attorney
general
minnesota
argued
cause
appellee
brief
miles
lord
attorney
general
arthur
roemer
special
assistant
attorney
general
john
izard
argued
cause
respondent
brief
william
meadow
joseph
johnson
edmund
brown
attorney
general
james
sabine
assistant
attorney
general
filed
brief
state
california
amicus
curiae
support
appellee
thomas
mcbride
attorney
general
edward
friedman
deputy
attorney
general
filed
brief
state
pennsylvania
amicus
curiae
lambert
miller
alan
nedry
filed
brief
national
association
manufacturers
america
amicus
curiae
support
respondent
justice
clark
delivered
opinion
cases
concern
constitutionality
state
net
income
tax
laws
levying
taxes
portion
foreign
corporation
net
income
earned
fairly
apportioned
business
activities
within
taxing
state
activities
exclusively
furtherance
interstate
commerce
question
raised
either
case
reasonableness
apportionment
net
income
state
formulas
amount
final
assessment
made
minnesota
tax
upheld
georgia
invalidated
statute
violative
commerce
clauses
federal
constitution
importance
question
field
state
taxation
indicated
fact
impose
direct
net
income
taxes
corporations
therefore
noted
jurisdiction
appeal
minnesota
case
granted
certiorari
although
cases
separately
briefed
argued
submitted
similarity
tax
case
consolidated
purposes
decision
contended
state
statutes
applied
violates
due
process
commerce
clauses
constitution
conclude
net
income
interstate
operations
foreign
corporation
may
subjected
state
taxation
provided
levy
discriminatory
properly
apportioned
local
activities
within
taxing
state
forming
sufficient
nexus
support
northwestern
portland
cement
state
minnesota
appeal
judgments
minnesota
courts
upholding
assessment
state
income
taxes
years
appellant
iowa
corporation
engaged
manufacture
sale
cement
plant
mason
city
iowa
forty
miles
minnesota
border
tax
levied
minnesota
statutes
imposes
annual
tax
upon
taxable
net
income
residents
nonresidents
alike
one
four
classes
taxed
statute
domestic
foreign
corporations
whose
business
within
state
taxable
year
consists
exclusively
foreign
commerce
interstate
commerce
minnesota
utilized
three
ratios
determining
portion
net
income
taxable
law
first
taxpayer
sales
assignable
minnesota
year
total
sales
period
made
everywhere
second
taxpayer
total
tangible
property
minnesota
year
total
tangible
property
used
business
year
wherever
situated
third
taxpayer
total
payroll
minnesota
year
total
payroll
entire
business
like
period
noted
appellant
takes
issue
fairness
formula
accuracy
application
appellant
activities
minnesota
consisted
regular
systematic
course
solicitation
orders
sale
products
order
subject
acceptance
filling
delivery
plant
mason
city
sold
eligible
dealers
lumber
building
material
supply
houses
contractors
companies
list
eligible
dealers
maintained
sales
made
included
thereon
percent
appellant
entire
sales
made
manner
dealers
minnesota
efficient
handling
activity
state
appellant
maintained
minneapolis
leased
sales
office
equipped
furniture
fixtures
supervision
known
district
manager
two
salesmen
including
district
manager
secretary
occupied
office
two
additional
salesmen
used
clearing
house
employee
paid
straight
salary
appellant
direct
mason
city
two
cars
furnished
salesmen
appellant
maintained
bank
account
minnesota
owned
real
estate
warehoused
merchandise
state
sales
made
delivered
price
basis
fixed
appellant
mason
city
pick
ups
permitted
plant
salesmen
however
authorized
quote
minnesota
customers
delivered
price
orders
received
salesmen
minneapolis
office
transmitted
daily
appellant
mason
city
approved
acknowledged
directly
purchaser
copies
salesman
addition
solicitation
approved
dealers
appellant
salesmen
also
contacted
potential
customers
users
cement
products
builders
contractors
architects
state
well
local
government
purchasing
agents
orders
solicited
received
special
forms
furnished
appellant
directed
approved
local
dealer
turn
fill
placing
like
order
appellant
system
appellant
salesmen
effect
secure
orders
local
dealers
turn
filled
appellant
usual
manner
salesmen
also
receive
transmit
claims
appellant
loss
damage
shipments
made
informing
company
nature
thereof
requesting
instructions
concerning
income
tax
returns
filed
state
appellant
assessments
sued
upon
aggregating
penalties
interest
made
commissioner
taxation
basis
information
available
williams
commissioner
stockham
valves
fittings
inc
respondent
delaware
corporation
principal
office
plant
birmingham
alabama
manufactures
sells
valves
pipe
fittings
established
local
wholesalers
jobbers
handle
products
respondent
dealers
encouraged
respondent
carry
local
inventory
products
granting
special
price
concession
however
corporation
maintained
warehouse
storage
facilities
georgia
maintain
office
atlanta
served
five
office
headquarters
one
salesman
devoted
time
solicitation
orders
georgia
paid
basis
woman
secretary
employed
received
regular
salary
source
information
respondent
products
performed
stenographic
clerical
services
facilitated
communications
home
office
birmingham
sales
representative
customers
prospective
customers
contractors
users
products
respondent
salesman
carried
usual
sales
activities
including
regular
solicitation
receipt
forwarding
orders
birmingham
office
promotion
business
good
respondent
orders
taken
well
office
subject
approval
home
office
shipped
birmingham
direct
customer
warehouse
basis
office
equipment
supplies
advertising
literature
like
respondent
property
georgia
deposited
funds
stored
merchandise
state
georgia
levies
tax
net
incomes
received
every
corporation
foreign
domestic
owning
property
business
state
act
defines
latter
including
activities
transactions
carried
within
state
purpose
financial
profit
gain
regardless
connection
interstate
commerce
apportion
net
income
act
applies
ratio
based
inventory
wages
gross
receipts
act
state
revenue
commissioner
assessed
collected
total
respondent
taxable
years
claims
refund
denied
respondent
filed
suit
recover
payments
bases
right
recover
squarely
upon
constitutionality
georgia
act
commerce
due
process
clauses
constitution
need
clearing
tangled
underbrush
past
cases
reference
taxing
power
concomitant
negative
approach
resulting
resolution
extremely
limited
restrictions
constitution
places
upon
wisconsin
penney
commerce
grown
like
topsy
congress
meanwhile
undertaken
regulate
taxation
understandably
persisted
efforts
get
return
substantial
benefits
afforded
little
wonder
end
cases
testing
state
tax
levies
resulting
judicial
application
constitutional
principles
specific
state
statutes
leaves
much
room
controversy
confusion
little
way
precise
guides
exercise
indispensable
power
taxation
alone
handed
three
hundred
opinions
spread
slightly
number
reports
said
miller
maryland
decisions
always
clear
consistent
reconcilable
specifically
overruled
others
longer
fully
represent
present
state
law
quagmire
emerge
however
firm
peaks
decision
remain
unquestioned
long
established
doctrine
commerce
clause
gives
exclusive
power
congress
regulate
interstate
commerce
failure
act
subject
area
taxation
nevertheless
requires
interstate
commerce
shall
free
direct
restrictions
impositions
gibbons
ogden
wheat
keeping
therewith
state
impose
taxes
upon
persons
passing
state
coming
merely
temporary
purpose
itinerant
drummers
robbins
taxing
district
moreover
beyond
dispute
state
may
lay
tax
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
spector
motor
service
may
state
impose
tax
discriminates
interstate
commerce
either
providing
direct
commercial
advantage
local
business
memphis
steam
laundry
stone
nippert
richmond
subjecting
interstate
commerce
burden
multiple
taxation
pipe
line
calvert
adams
mfg
storen
impositions
stricken
commerce
clause
allowed
one
direct
interference
free
flow
commerce
freeman
hewit
hand
established
since
net
income
tax
revenues
derived
interstate
commerce
offend
constitutional
limitations
upon
state
interference
commerce
decision
peck
lowe
pointed
way
held
though
true
constitution
provided
tax
duty
shall
laid
articles
exported
state
art
still
net
income
tax
profits
derived
commerce
laid
articles
course
exportation
anything
inherently
usages
commerce
embraced
exportation
processes
exportation
affected
indirectly
remotely
first
case
applying
doctrine
interstate
commerce
glue
town
oak
creek
distinguished
invalid
direct
levy
placed
burden
interstate
commerce
charge
way
net
income
derived
profits
interstate
commerce
landmark
case
usually
cited
upholding
doctrine
announced
underwood
typewriter
chamberlain
memphis
gas
beeler
dealt
corporations
domestic
taxing
state
glue
town
oak
creek
supra
established
commercial
domicile
underwood
typewriter
chamberlain
supra
memphis
gas
beeler
supra
presence
circumstance
controlling
shown
cases
bass
ratcliff
gretton
state
tax
commission
norfolk
north
carolina
neither
cases
taxpayer
domiciliary
taxing
state
incorporated
principal
place
business
though
carried
substantial
local
activities
permitting
assessment
new
york
franchise
tax
measured
proportional
formula
british
corporation
selling
ale
new
york
state
held
bass
ratcliff
gretton
supra
company
carried
unitary
business
manufacturing
selling
ale
profits
earned
series
transactions
beginning
manufacture
england
ending
sales
new
york
places
process
manufacturing
resulting
profits
ends
sales
state
justified
attributing
new
york
proportion
profits
earned
company
unitary
business
likewise
norfolk
supra
north
carolina
permitted
tax
virginia
corporation
net
income
apportioned
north
carolina
basis
mileage
within
state
cases
stand
doctrine
entire
net
income
corporation
generated
interstate
well
intrastate
activities
may
fairly
apportioned
among
tax
purposes
formulas
utilizing
aspects
interstate
affairs
fact
bass
ratcliff
gretton
operations
taxing
state
conducted
loss
still
allowed
part
net
profit
corporation
attributed
state
reading
statute
norfolk
reveals
one
facet
apportionment
formula
specifically
designed
attribute
portion
interstate
hauls
taxing
state
doubt
validity
position
entirely
dispelled
four
years
beeler
unanimous
per
curiam
west
publishing
mccolgan
citing
four
cases
beeler
glue
supra
interstate
busses
blodgett
international
shoe
washington
case
involved
validity
california
tax
apportioned
net
income
west
publishing
company
whose
business
exclusively
interstate
see
cal
statement
facts
opinion
recites
employees
given
space
offices
attorneys
return
use
plaintiff
books
stored
offices
significant
note
west
qualified
business
california
state
statute
declared
tax
levied
income
derived
interstate
commerce
within
state
well
arising
intrastate
opinion
grounded
triviality
office
space
given
west
soliciters
attorneys
exchange
chanceful
use
books
may
hand
sales
activities
rather
recognized
income
taxed
arose
purely
interstate
operation
relying
foregoing
cases
proposition
foreign
corporation
engaged
within
state
solely
interstate
commerce
immune
net
income
taxation
state
plaintiff
west
publishing
overlooks
distinction
made
tax
whose
subject
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
tax
whose
subject
net
income
commerce
settled
decisions
tax
net
income
interstate
commerce
distinguished
tax
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
conflict
commerce
clause
cal
citations
omitted
economic
wisdom
state
net
income
taxes
one
state
policy
decision
one
realities
raised
parties
possibility
multiple
burden
resulting
exactions
question
answer
none
shown
exist
unapportioned
tax
nature
makes
interstate
commerce
bear
fair
share
said
central
greyhound
lines
mealey
interstate
commerce
state
seeking
reach
real
question
whether
state
exacting
constitutionally
fair
demand
state
aspect
interstate
commerce
state
bears
special
relation
apportioned
tax
designed
meet
requirement
prevent
levying
taxes
discriminate
prohibit
interstate
activities
place
interstate
commerce
disadvantage
relative
local
commerce
logically
impossible
tax
fairly
apportioned
income
taxed
twice
practical
operation
however
apportionment
formulas
possibility
contrary
foreclosed
especially
levies
domiciliary
question
us
argued
northwest
airlines
minnesota
taxation
entire
fleet
airplanes
state
result
multiple
taxation
since
state
levied
taxes
proportion
full
value
thereof
rejected
contention
us
even
though
actually
collected
property
taxes
year
northwest
upon
proportion
full
value
fleet
records
contrary
nothing
show
multiple
taxation
present
deal
abstractions
type
case
taxpayers
must
show
formula
places
burden
upon
interstate
commerce
constitutional
sense
failed
also
contended
spector
motor
service
requires
contrary
result
repeatedly
emphasized
tax
imposed
upon
franchise
foreign
corporation
privilege
business
within
state
thus
invalid
long
line
precedents
mentioned
levy
net
income
excise
tax
placed
franchise
foreign
corporation
engaged
exclusively
interstate
operations
therefore
exception
beeler
heretofore
mentioned
made
reference
cases
control
construe
reference
intended
impair
validity
beeler
opinion
reach
problem
taxes
like
west
publishing
mccolgan
supra
based
upon
net
profits
earned
taxing
state
incidence
tax
affords
valid
constitutional
channel
utilized
make
interstate
commerce
pay
way
spector
incidence
privilege
business
avenue
approach
long
declared
unavailable
commerce
clause
said
spector
taxes
may
imposed
although
payment
may
come
funds
derived
petitioner
interstate
business
provided
taxes
imposed
burden
reasonably
related
powers
state
find
statutes
meet
tests
argument
exactions
contravene
due
process
clause
bear
scrutiny
taxes
imposed
levied
portion
taxpayer
net
income
arises
activities
within
taxing
state
activities
form
sufficient
nexus
tax
transactions
within
state
tax
exaction
wisconsin
penney
supra
strains
reality
say
terms
decisions
corporations
sufficiently
involved
local
events
forge
definite
link
minimum
connection
sufficient
satisfy
due
process
requirements
miller
maryland
see
also
ott
miss
valley
barge
line
international
shoe
washington
west
publishing
mccolgan
supra
record
without
conflict
corporations
engage
substantial
activity
taxing
fact
almost
half
corporation
income
derived
taxing
state
sales
shown
promoted
vigorous
continuous
sales
campaigns
run
central
office
located
state
percent
sales
available
course
conduct
largely
identical
said
wisconsin
penney
supra
controlling
question
whether
state
given
anything
ask
return
since
practical
operation
tax
state
exerted
power
relation
opportunities
given
protection
afforded
benefits
conferred
free
pursue
fiscal
policies
unembarrassed
constitution
affirmed
reversed
footnotes
classes
taxpayers
annual
tax
taxable
year
computed
manner
rates
hereinafter
provided
hereby
imposed
upon
taxable
net
income
year
following
classes
taxpayers
domestic
foreign
corporations
taxable
section
property
within
state
whose
business
within
state
taxable
year
consists
exclusively
foreign
commerce
interstate
commerce
business
within
state
shall
deemed
include
transportation
interstate
foreign
commerce
means
ships
navigating
within
waters
made
international
navigation
purposes
treaty
agreement
party
minn
stat
code
ann
rate
taxation
corporations
every
domestic
corporation
every
foreign
corporation
shall
pay
annually
income
tax
equivalent
five
per
cent
net
income
property
owned
business
done
georgia
defined
section
corporations
allocation
apportionment
income
tax
imposed
law
shall
apply
entire
net
income
herein
defined
received
every
corporation
foreign
domestic
owning
property
business
state
every
corporation
shall
deemed
business
within
state
engages
within
state
activities
transactions
purpose
financial
profit
gain
whether
corporation
qualifies
business
state
whether
maintains
office
place
business
within
state
whether
activity
transaction
connected
interstate
foreign
commerce
tax
corporations
part
general
scheme
income
taxation
georgia
imposes
individuals
corporations
fiduciaries
standard
oil
peck
struck
ohio
ad
valorem
property
tax
vessels
domiciled
plying
interstate
trade
apportioned
nevertheless
pointed
payments
abridge
power
taxation
home
state
see
also
alpha
portland
cement
massachusetts
striking
massachusetts
excise
tax
foreign
corporation
engaged
exclusively
interstate
commerce
noted
right
lay
taxes
tangible
property
income
involved
furthermore
none
cases
dissent
relies
proposition
state
right
lay
tax
interstate
commerce
form
net
income
tax
case
fact
involved
taxes
levied
upon
corporations
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
consistently
held
privilege
engaging
interstate
commerce
granted
withheld
state
assertion
state
power
tax
privilege
therefore
forbidden
attempt
regulate
interstate
commerce
cf
murdock
pennsylvania
justice
harlan
concurring
joining
opinion
deem
appropriate
make
comments
issues
cases
strongly
held
contrary
views
manifested
dissenting
opinions
justice
frankfurter
justice
whittaker
preface
follows
saying
view
past
decisions
clearly
point
indeed
compel
sustaining
two
state
taxing
measures
since
glue
town
oak
creek
decided
uniformly
held
state
applying
net
income
tax
general
impact
corporation
business
within
borders
may
reach
income
derived
interstate
commerce
extent
income
fairly
related
corporate
activities
within
state
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carter
atlantic
coast
line
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state
tax
norfolk
north
carolina
read
cases
existence
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income
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receipts
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income
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state
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west
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oral
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california
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taxing
income
activities
carried
state
regardless
whether
carried
intrastate
interstate
foreign
commerce
applied
reach
portion
net
income
minnesota
corporation
qualified
intrastate
business
california
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california
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income
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entirely
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purely
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business
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affirmance
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case
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state
engaged
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earned
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view
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support
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case
employees
taxpayer
solicited
business
california
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receive
payments
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delinquent
accounts
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complaints
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space
california
lawyers
offices
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use
taxpayer
books
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locations
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local
offices
said
usual
criteria
consistently
held
constitute
intrastate
commerce
california
determined
taxed
amount
intrastate
commerce
deference
seems
novel
doctrine
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doctrine
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held
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kind
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solely
aid
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sales
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commerce
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things
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say
california
seeking
measure
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renting
complaint
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rather
part
income
concededly
interstate
sales
transactions
think
west
squarely
governs
two
cases
us
said
taxes
presently
issue
laid
income
interstate
commerce
source
course
vote
strike
application
unconstitutionally
discriminatory
interstate
commerce
seems
plainly
case
opinion
demonstrates
minnesota
georgia
taxes
part
general
scheme
state
income
taxation
reaching
individual
corporate
net
income
taxing
statutes
sought
applied
portions
net
income
northwestern
stockham
source
income
interstate
commerce
rather
despite
source
thrust
statutes
hostile
discrimination
interstate
commerce
rather
seeking
compensation
facilities
benefits
afforded
taxing
activities
therein
whether
activities
altogether
local
furtherance
interstate
commerce
past
decisions
establish
compensation
may
consistent
commerce
clause
think
regulation
burden
interference
interstate
commerce
permit
state
within
whose
borders
foreign
corporation
engages
solely
activities
aid
commerce
tax
net
income
derived
therefrom
properly
apportioned
basis
permit
state
impose
nondiscriminatory
net
income
tax
general
application
corporation
engaging
interstate
intrastate
commerce
therein
take
account
income
categories
cf
peck
lowe
case
amount
tax
increase
profitability
interstate
business
done
increases
consistently
upheld
state
net
income
taxes
general
application
applied
reach
portion
profits
interstate
business
enterprises
fairly
allocable
activities
within
state
borders
today
early
discriminating
commentator
late
thomas
reed
powell
say
commenting
decisions
peck
lowe
glue
town
oak
creek
supra
may
take
granted
legal
character
recipient
nature
business
recipient
engaged
immaterial
elements
considering
constitutionality
general
tax
net
income
business
done
within
state
recipient
may
individual
partnership
domestic
foreign
corporation
business
may
exclusively
interstate
indirect
encroachment
federal
authority
taxing
powers
vii
harv
rev
nothing
glue
turned
fact
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happened
domestic
corporation
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line
cases
following
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foreign
corporations
interstate
business
see
cases
cited
ante
apart
considerations
discussed
text
opinion
noteworthy
west
relying
memphis
natural
gas
beeler
cited
directly
page
beeler
opinion
said
case
even
taxpayer
business
wholly
interstate
commerce
italics
supplied
nondiscriminatory
tax
tennessee
upon
net
income
foreign
corporation
commercial
domicile
citation
upon
net
income
derived
within
state
citations
prohibited
commerce
clause
taxpayer
alone
relies
citing
among
cases
glue
town
oak
creek
supra
contention
showing
tax
assessed
upon
net
earnings
justly
attributable
tennessee
citations
justice
frankfurter
dissenting
way
emphasizing
agreement
brother
whittaker
add
observations
sustains
taxing
power
two
cases
essentially
basis
precedents
result
today
decisions
break
new
ground
say
among
hundreds
cases
dealing
power
tax
commerce
single
decision
adjudicating
precise
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us
concretely
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state
may
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corporation
tax
income
related
state
virtue
activities
within
activities
exclusively
part
process
interstate
commerce
precise
situation
state
courts
found
wit
northwestern
activities
state
integral
part
interstate
activities
revenue
received
customers
minnesota
resulted
operations
interstate
commerce
ithout
dispute
stockham
engaged
exclusively
interstate
commerce
far
activities
georgia
concerned
case
argumentatively
comes
closest
situation
west
publishing
mccolgan
case
opinion
california
summarily
sustained
clearly
set
forth
cal
west
publishing
company
merely
complete
california
business
began
minnesota
employed
permanent
workers
engaged
business
activities
localized
california
activities
apart
addition
purely
interstate
sale
law
books
activities
essential
part
process
interstate
commerce
legal
shorthand
local
california
activities
constituting
interstate
business
dealing
purely
local
activities
state
properly
exert
taxing
power
relation
opportunities
advantages
given
withheld
simply
allowing
foreign
corporation
local
business
whereas
state
may
withhold
foreign
corporation
within
borders
right
exercise
part
process
exclusively
interstate
commerce
state
gives
corporation
engaged
nothing
withhold
therefore
nothing
charge
price
whether
price
cost
license
interstate
business
tax
profits
accruing
business
venture
say
every
decision
say
decision
talk
dicta
reliance
placed
presented
situation
conjoined
interstate
commerce
severable
local
state
business
basis
state
taxing
power
became
constitutionally
operative
difference
situations
matter
economics
involves
distinction
taking
account
total
activity
enterprise
going
business
determining
fairly
apportioned
tax
based
locally
derived
revenues
taxing
portion
revenue
concededly
produced
exclusively
interstate
commerce
sure
distinction
nice
one
last
word
necessity
nice
distinctions
area
said
justice
holmes
galveston
texas
admitted
course
must
every
law
affects
commerce
regulation
constitutional
sense
nice
distinctions
expected
accordingly
today
decision
rest
basis
adjudicated
precedents
bar
making
new
precedent
history
commerce
clause
history
judicial
evolution
one
thing
however
recognize
taxing
power
relation
purely
interstate
activities
quite
another
thing
say
power
already
established
decisions
new
ground
broken
ground
must
justified
treated
though
old
ground
think
take
new
step
objection
policy
underlies
commerce
clause
namely
whatever
disadvantages
may
accrue
separate
making
territory
far
outweighed
advantages
nation
component
assuming
course
today
decision
stimulate
indeed
compel
every
state
union
already
done
devise
formula
apportionment
tax
income
enterprises
carrying
exclusively
interstate
commerce
result
interstate
commerce
burdened
hypothetically
practically
admonished
taxation
practical
matter
think
interstate
commerce
merely
argumentatively
actively
burdened
two
reasons
first
believe
gainsaid
thousands
relatively
small
moderate
size
corporations
exclusively
interstate
business
spread
several
subject
corporations
separate
income
tax
means
keep
books
make
returns
store
records
engage
legal
counsel
meet
divers
variegated
tax
laws
different
times
filing
returns
different
tax
structures
different
modes
determining
net
income
different
often
conflicting
formulas
apportionment
involve
large
increases
bookkeeping
accounting
legal
paraphernalia
meet
new
demands
cost
scheme
complying
taxing
requirements
different
may
well
exceed
burden
taxes
especially
case
small
companies
small
volume
business
several
second
extensive
litigation
challenged
formulas
apportionment
case
railroads
express
companies
challenges
addressed
natural
temptation
absorb
fair
share
interstate
revenue
multiplied
many
times
formulas
applied
infinitely
larger
number
businesses
engaged
exclusively
interstate
commerce
division
railroad
apportionment
cases
good
index
might
reasonably
expected
cases
involving
numerous
industries
come
suggestion
convenience
determine
construction
commerce
clause
although
important
balancing
considerations
relevant
commerce
clause
claims
state
power
mindful
kind
questions
called
upon
adjudicate
special
competence
adjudicating
wholly
apart
necessity
litigation
based
elusive
essentially
questions
casts
burden
businesses
consequently
interstate
commerce
imposed
considerations
lead
conclusion
vast
amount
business
carried
throughout
part
exclusively
interstate
commerce
made
contribute
cost
maintaining
state
governments
practical
matter
necessarily
contribute
conduct
commerce
mere
fact
existence
governments
question
whether
fair
share
profits
derived
carrying
exclusively
interstate
commerce
contribute
cost
state
governments
question
whether
answer
problem
rests
congress
unmindful
extent
federal
taxes
absorb
taxable
resources
nation
time
fiscal
demands
increase
conditions
present
problems
accommodating
fiscal
policy
determination
get
much
common
fund
hardly
made
wisely
smoothly
adjudicatory
process
fact
relying
courts
solve
problems
aggravates
difficulties
retards
proper
legislative
solution
best
act
negatively
determine
whether
specific
state
tax
imposed
violation
commerce
clause
decisions
must
necessarily
depend
application
rough
ready
legal
concepts
make
detailed
inquiry
incidence
diverse
economic
burdens
order
determine
extent
burdens
conflict
necessities
national
economic
life
neither
devise
appropriate
standards
dividing
national
revenue
basis
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abstract
principles
constitutional
law
responsive
subtleties
interrelated
economies
nation
state
problem
calls
solution
devising
congressional
policy
congress
alone
provide
full
thorough
canvassing
multitudinous
intricate
factors
compose
problem
taxing
freedom
needed
limits
state
taxing
power
congressional
committees
make
studies
give
claims
individual
adequate
hearing
ultimate
legislative
formulation
policy
made
representatives
solution
problems
rest
determination
entitled
nation
resources
congress
alone
formulate
policies
founded
upon
economic
realities
perhaps
applied
myriad
situation
involved
properly
constituted
duly
informed
administrative
agency
west
case
per
curiam
affirmance
without
opinion
cited
four
cases
support
glue
town
oak
creek
interstate
busses
blodgett
memphis
natural
gas
beeler
international
shoe
washington
one
cases
presented
issue
none
sustain
state
net
income
tax
business
whose
revenue
derived
solely
interstate
commerce
glue
town
oak
creek
supra
upheld
apportioned
net
income
tax
levied
state
wisconsin
wisconsin
corporation
principal
office
manufacturing
establishment
state
substantial
part
corporation
business
intrastate
issue
power
state
include
interstate
income
apportionment
computation
interstate
busses
blodgett
supra
decided
appellant
sustained
burden
showing
excise
tax
one
cent
per
mile
levied
connecticut
motor
vehicles
using
highways
interstate
commerce
fell
discriminating
weight
interstate
commerce
tax
viewed
part
state
entire
taxing
scheme
aside
issue
discrimination
case
merely
another
instance
state
charging
use
highways
memphis
natural
gas
beeler
supra
upheld
net
income
tax
imposed
state
tennessee
revenues
earned
memphis
gas
company
shipping
gas
state
selling
together
another
company
retail
consumers
state
decision
explicitly
based
determination
revenue
fact
derived
intrastate
rather
interstate
commerce
addition
memphis
company
licensed
business
tennessee
maintained
principal
place
business
sold
much
gas
state
true
page
cited
beeler
opinion
indulged
dictum
net
income
interstate
commerce
taxable
almost
observation
relying
citations
support
writer
prone
uttering
dicta
international
shoe
washington
supra
decided
due
process
clause
fourteenth
amendment
prohibit
state
washington
exercising
jurisdiction
international
shoe
light
frequency
extent
company
business
contacts
within
state
doubt
unemployment
compensation
contributions
exacted
washington
entirely
consistent
commerce
clause
since
congress
explicitly
authorized
levies
thus
none
cases
cited
west
support
interpretation
decision
goes
beyond
actual
situation
severable
local
activities
presented
case
support
present
taxes
levied
exclusively
interstate
business
detailed
exposition
manifold
difficulties
complying
diverse
complex
taxing
systems
see
cohen
state
tax
allocations
formulas
affect
management
operating
decisions
jour
taxation
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hines
pullman
palace
car
pennsylvania
adams
express
ohio
state
auditor
opinion
denying
rehearing
see
northwest
airlines
minnesota
northwest
pointed
desirability
congressional
action
formulate
uniform
standards
state
taxation
rapidly
expanding
airline
industry
following
decision
congress
directed
civil
aeronautics
board
study
report
congress
methods
eliminating
burdensome
multiple
state
taxation
airlines
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report
board
document
whose
length
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economic
content
dealing
single
subject
state
taxation
illustrate
difficulties
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nature
problem
following
presentation
extensive
report
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bills
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congress
providing
single
uniform
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formula
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taxing
airlines
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enacted
australia
resolved
problem
conflicting
burdensome
state
taxation
commerce
national
arrangement
whereby
taxes
collected
commonwealth
revenues
appropriate
allocations
made
annually
mechanism
premiers
conference
prime
minister
commonwealth
premiers
several
justice
whittaker
justice
frankfurter
justice
stewart
join
dissenting
respectfully
dissent
disagreement
think
constitutional
fundamentals
think
commerce
clause
constitution
art
cl
consistently
interpreted
today
precludes
laying
taxes
directly
thereby
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exclusively
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commerce
decision
today
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findings
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clear
sharp
undisputed
room
doubt
statutes
involved
designed
tax
income
derived
exclusively
interstate
commerce
courts
concerned
found
income
involved
derived
exclusively
interstate
commerce
taxes
question
laid
directly
interstate
commerce
northwestern
portland
cement
company
iowa
corporation
maintaining
principal
office
manufacturing
plant
mason
city
state
many
years
sold
cement
locally
iowa
interstate
commerce
dealers
neighboring
including
minnesota
although
exclusively
interstate
character
commerce
done
northwestern
minnesota
disputed
course
conduct
state
summarized
margin
minnesota
acting
statutory
three
factor
formula
contained
minnesota
statutes
apportioned
allocated
minnesota
substantial
part
northwestern
net
income
years
upon
amount
net
income
allocated
minnesota
assessed
tax
northwestern
years
minnesota
statutes
pertinent
part
provides
classes
taxpayers
annual
tax
taxable
year
computed
manner
rates
hereinafter
provided
hereby
imposed
upon
taxable
net
income
year
following
classes
taxpayers
domestic
foreign
corporations
whose
business
within
state
taxable
year
consists
exclusively
interstate
commerce
northwestern
activities
state
integral
part
interstate
activities
revenue
received
customers
minnesota
resulted
operations
interstate
commerce
stockham
valves
fittings
delaware
corporation
maintaining
principal
office
manufacturing
plant
birmingham
alabama
makes
valves
pipefittings
sells
locally
alabama
interstate
commerce
wholesalers
jobbers
georgia
well
union
although
facts
stipulated
exclusively
interstate
character
commerce
done
stockham
georgia
dispute
course
conduct
state
summarized
margin
petitioner
state
revenue
commissioner
georgia
acting
three
factor
ratio
code
georgia
amended
apportioned
allocated
georgia
part
stockham
net
income
years
upon
amounts
net
income
allocated
petitioner
assessed
tax
stockham
years
code
georgia
amended
pertinent
part
provides
corporations
allocation
apportionment
income
tax
imposed
law
shall
apply
entire
net
income
herein
defined
received
every
corporation
foreign
domestic
owning
property
business
state
every
corporation
shall
deemed
business
within
state
engages
within
state
activities
transactions
purpose
financial
profit
gain
whether
activity
transaction
connected
interstate
foreign
commerce
emphasis
added
ithout
dispute
stockham
engaged
exclusively
interstate
commerce
far
activities
georgia
concerned
submit
simple
recitals
clearly
show
minnesota
georgia
statutes
plain
terms
purport
tax
income
derived
exclusively
interstate
commerce
minnesota
georgia
courts
found
income
involved
derived
exclusively
interstate
commerce
taxes
laid
directly
interstate
commerce
room
dispute
admitted
facts
yet
believe
squarely
face
veiledly
treats
cases
though
intrastate
commerce
extent
involved
says
referring
minnesota
case
one
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brothers
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taxpayer
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lawyers
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typewriter
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line
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mining
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bass
ratcliff
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state
tax
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north
carolina
recitals
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cited
landmark
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cases
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gas
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international
shoe
washington
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least
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tax
interstate
commerce
quotation
wisconsin
minnesota
mining
manufacturing
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face
wisconsin
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income
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within
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motor
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elimination
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interstate
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may
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business
within
reasonable
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applying
tax
rate
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within
state
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holdings
commerce
cases
relied
upon
surely
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relied
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net
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corporation
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legal
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business
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spector
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always
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like
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income
taxes
intrastate
commerce
exclusively
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commerce
whereas
minnesota
georgia
courts
found
income
taxed
derived
exclusively
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commerce
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levied
upon
intrastate
commerce
none
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idle
say
taxes
laid
interstate
commerce
taxpayer
general
income
commerce
ended
therefore
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hence
regulate
interstate
commerce
addition
plainness
fact
courts
minnesota
georgia
explicitly
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cases
income
involved
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commerce
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income
taxes
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income
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commerce
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commerce
source
peck
lowe
supra
spector
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clause
denies
state
power
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commerce
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direct
taxation
exclusively
interstate
commerce
substantial
regulation
therefore
absence
congressional
consent
may
directly
tax
held
every
time
question
presented
today
without
congressional
consent
minnesota
georgia
laid
taxes
directly
admit
exclusively
interstate
commerce
hence
view
levies
plainly
violated
commerce
clause
constitution
stand
consistently
therewith
prior
cases
therefore
reverse
judgment
minnesota
affirm
judgment
georgia
northwestern
qualify
minnesota
laws
business
state
years
involved
maintained
small
sales
office
minneapolis
employed
two
salesmen
secretary
duties
wholly
clerical
also
employed
two
three
salesmen
points
minnesota
worked
homes
apart
small
amount
furniture
minneapolis
office
two
salesmen
automobiles
owned
property
within
state
bank
account
therein
salaries
reimbursable
expenses
salesmen
secretary
office
rent
telephone
bills
expenses
minneapolis
office
paid
directly
home
office
salesmen
solicited
took
orders
dealers
authorized
accept
orders
make
contracts
company
authorized
receive
payments
collect
accounts
adjust
claims
orders
received
mailed
home
office
approval
credit
acceptance
rejection
orders
acknowledged
accepted
rejected
writing
mailed
home
office
directly
purchasers
accepted
orders
filled
delivery
cement
rail
carrier
plant
mason
city
consigned
purchasers
sales
invoices
prepared
mailed
home
office
directly
purchasers
made
payment
directly
company
home
office
salesmen
also
called
contractors
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cement
solicit
orders
purpose
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merits
northwestern
product
advising
names
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dealers
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evidence
might
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salesmen
sometimes
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orders
contractors
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local
dealers
stocked
northwestern
cement
thus
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local
business
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cement
dealers
cheney
brothers
massachusetts
finding
made
colorable
basis
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minnesota
press
finding
practice
easily
ended
northwestern
minnesota
evident
object
rest
basis
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adjudication
statute
validly
imposed
tax
upon
northwestern
net
income
minnesota
customers
though
derived
exclusively
interstate
commerce
minnesota
statutes
provides
substance
business
done
partly
within
partly
without
state
shall
apportioned
allocated
minnesota
income
derived
intrastate
commerce
done
state
amount
equal
ratio
taxpayer
sales
made
within
state
tangible
property
owned
used
state
total
payrolls
paid
state
bear
taxpayer
totals
factors
facilitate
conduct
commerce
stockham
keeps
stock
products
public
warehouses
birmingham
chicago
houston
vernon
california
maintains
cities
widely
separated
industrial
centers
including
atlanta
small
sales
office
qualified
georgia
laws
business
state
atlanta
office
listed
atlanta
telephone
city
directories
staffed
one
salesman
secretary
duties
entirely
clerical
salesman
spends
working
time
georgia
remainder
four
southeastern
calling
persons
position
recommend
specify
use
particular
building
supplies
construction
work
architects
engineers
contractors
independent
wholesalers
jobbers
endeavoring
impress
merits
induce
specify
recommend
use
stockham
products
although
authority
accept
orders
make
contracts
company
solicits
orders
wholesalers
jobbers
transmits
receives
home
office
approval
credit
acceptance
rejection
part
orders
mailed
directly
purchasers
home
office
birmingham
accepted
orders
filled
delivery
goods
purchasers
common
carrier
consigned
purchasers
birmingham
plant
sales
invoices
prepared
mailed
home
office
directly
purchasers
remit
home
office
salesman
receive
payments
collect
accounts
adjust
claims
except
small
amount
office
furniture
atlanta
sales
office
company
property
georgia
bank
account
salaries
salesman
secretary
reimbursable
expenses
office
rent
telephone
bills
expenses
atlanta
office
paid
directly
home
office
code
georgia
amended
provides
income
derived
manufacture
production
sale
tangible
personal
property
portion
net
income
therefrom
attributable
property
owned
business
done
within
state
shall
taken
portion
arrived
arithmetical
average
ratios
taxpayer
inventories
products
held
state
compensation
paid
incurred
state
gross
receipts
business
done
within
state
bear
taxpayer
totals
factors