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STEVE M. WINDHAM, LLM, MBA, EA
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Treasury Direct

Click here to access the California State Controller Unclaimed Property Search.Click here to access the California State Controller Unclaimed Property Search.

The State of California may have custody of some of your money!  For more information about the California Unclaimed Property page, please visit the following link:

https://ucpi.sco.ca.gov/en/Property/SearchIndex

Click here to access Treasury Direct, Treasury Hunt.

Treasury Hunt is our online search engine for finding matured, uncashed savings bonds (over 30 years old and no longer earning interest). You can also find missing payments on other securities.

https://treasuryhunt.gov/

 

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes.

Helvering v. Gregory, 69 F.2d 809, 810-11 (2d Cir. 1934).
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.

Commissioner v. Newman, 159 F2d 848 (1947).