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...some other experience that altered his tax status. Though not out to cheat the IRS, he wants to know all the legal loopholes. Says Henry Bloch, the company's president: "Our customers believe in paying their fair tax, but they don't want to overpay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Time at Block | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...year. If a married couple file a joint return, but one of the two is unemployed, they very likely will be paying out too much in withholding. Similarly, an earner who expects to have big itemized deductions for home-mortgage payments, medical bills, charity and the like will probably overpay. To ease the weekly or monthly burden for these people, the Internal Revenue Service has created a new exemption called the "special withholding allowance." People who believe that their employer is holding back too much can go to him and claim from one to seven such exemptions to bring their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: Does Your Paycheck Seem Smaller Lately? | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...notion that, without paying the piper in higher prices, we can as a nation overpay ourselves for what we produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Nominations for Oblivion | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...seems to me that the Crimson editorialist has been confused by talk of "buyers' strikes" and consumers' self-discipline. AVC has urged people not to overpay, to seek to force prices down. But we do not urge poor people to do without milk for their children because the price has gone up. Nor do we ask veterans to do without education because it costs more to attend college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

Salaries of recent times overpay their recipients. The excuse for them has been that in conducting a large business the right man is cheap at any price and the wrong man dear at any price. Publicity is the best remedy for all evils of corporation management, provided that there is an honest and strenuous public opinion which will reform these evils...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Eliot on Corporations | 3/12/1906 | See Source »

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