federal instrumentality
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From 291 U.S. 17 - Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. v. McLean · 1934Most cited · 212 citing opinions
the appellant, in the enjoyment of the privilege, is engaged in its own behalf, not the government's, in the conduct of a private business for profit. It can no longer be thought that the enjoyment of a privilege conferred by either the national or a state government upon the individual, even though to promote some governmental policy, relieves him from the taxation by the other of his property or business used or carried on in the enjoyment of the privilege or of the profits derived from it