Word: collections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most seriously affected are partly disabled people who collect pension payments from a former employer while holding down a part-time or less demanding job. A typical example is a policeman with a heart ailment who leaves the force and takes on lighter duties as a department store guard. Last year he could deduct $5,200 of his police pension income. This year he cannot deduct any of it, since he is not totally disabled, and he now owes a big tax bill. One Colorado couple's tax liability jumped from...
...Even the experts on the Ways and Means staff admitted that the proposal could lead to "job churning"-the conversion of full-time jobs to part-time jobs in order to collect more tax write-offs. Ullman conceded that a firm might be able to hire a worker at $4,200 for six months, replace him with a new worker at the same wage and pick up $1,680 credit for each...
...Cambridge bore the dubious distinction of having the highest car theft rate in the country. Insurance costs on cars ran so high that it was scarcely worth owning one; in fact, a popular trick was to hire someone to steal your car so that you could then collect the insurance rate...
...game this year by providing tax money for congressional campaigns. Such a move would serve as a farewell present to Common Cause Founder John Gardner, who is retiring as chairman in April. Incumbents have been reluctant to approve such a kitty: Why help challengers? But Congress is about to collect a pay raise and is caught up in an influence-buying scandal with South Korean lobbyists. So pressures to reform Capitol Hill's own campaign financing may prove too strong to resist. Besides, big money does not always guarantee success. Of the top five recipients of private money among...
...Liver that chops itself and spreads itself on Ritz crackers; paramecia smart enough to make collect phone calls; Girl Scout cookies made out of Girl Scouts...