Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more is needed, the atabrine patents will be available, royalty free, to a score of pharmaceutical manufacturers who can step up production to astronomical figures. Equipment priorities for this purpose have not been granted because production is already far in excess of needs...
...profits to buy back some of their bonds at bargain sale prices? The answer is taxes. For example, if a railroad should buy in $100,000 worth of its bonds for $60,000, the Government would make it report a $40,000 profit, on which next year's excess profits tax would be $36,000. At this rate the railroad treasurers figure it isn't much...
...committee last week also agreed that carriers which go through the wringer should still be allowed to figure their excess-profits tax base on their old capitalization. Chicago & Northwestern, Missouri Pacific, Florida East Coast, New Haven, many other roads are still hiding in the courts; under the present law their taxes would be many times higher the minute they come out. Last week's tax-law change would do more to speed railroad reorganization than anything since Section 77 of the National Bankruptcy Act became...
...Voted to refund after the war 10% of corporation excess profits and surtaxes paid during the war and to put an over-all ceiling of 80% on their taxes...
...Christian Science church, numerous Roman Catholic properties, including those of 13 Catholic orders. Here the issue is not merely one of taxing church-owned properties that are used for commercial activities. The reasons given for taxing them have been that the land owned by certain religious institutions is in "excess" of their needs, that a Franciscan monastery is not actually used as a church (though daily Masses open to the public are said in it), that other properties (including seminaries) are not entitled to exemption as educational institutions...