People v. Carmody’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““The precise issue was presented in People v. Baldwin, 287 Ill. 87 , where the trial court remitted interest on an inheritance tax obligation. On appeal the court said at pp. 91-92: "The statute is positive that interest must be paid unless paid within the first six months. It is self-executing, and an inheritance tax, after it is assessed, draws six percentum interest, as aforesaid, by reason of the provisions of the statute, just the same as will a judgment for money rendered by any court of record. This would be so whether the county court made any provision in its order with reference to the paying of interest or failed in its order to make such a provision. The statute nowhere gives the county court any power or right to remit any part of the interest provided by the statute. In the absence of such a provision giving the court a right to remit interest it has no power to do so, whether the statute be regarded as one imposing a penalty or otherwise. Under such positive provision of the statute, even where it is imposed by way of a penalty, the court cannot remit the same in the absence of authority given by the statute.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 30 Ill. App. 3d 254 - People Ex Rel. Holland v. Halprin