What is the test for making out a tax evasion offence?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Elwert v. United States, 231 F.2d 928 (9th Cir. 1956):
11 "If the tax-evasion motive plays any part in such conduct the offense may be made out even though the conduct may also serve other purposes such as concealment of other crime." Spies v. United States, 1943, 317 U.S. 492, 499, 63 S.Ct. 364, 368, 87 L.Ed. 418.
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