Word: retail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the general plan each & every manufacturer doing an annual business of $10,000 or more would pay the Treasury 2% of the wholesale price of his product. Undoubtedly this tax would be passed along indirectly to the retail consumer. To make the tax as broad and impartial as possible, the Ways & Means Committee talked of exempting from its provisions only raw or unprocessed food, bread, milk, farm seeds, fertilizer, perhaps the cheapest kind of clothing. The great merit of such a tax. it was argued, was that it bore down on all industries alike. Unlike the excise taxes proposed...
publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted} to Ben Boswell of TIME, 205 East 42nd St., New York City...
...closer to the Ways & Means Committee until last week, seven members were assigned to study it as a revenue possibility. Excise taxes proposed for this or that industry were in each case protested as discriminatory. Taxes on luxuries were too small to be really helpful. But to tax every retail transaction is cumbersome. Therefore the committee pondered a tax on all manufactured articles at the factory. It was estimated that the current value of manufactured goods approximated $40,000,000,000 per year. A 2% tax on this production at the factory would bring the Treasury...
...Coop attributes its stability in this period readjustment to the fact that the customers are almost entirely students and the luxury market is small. The wholesale market has suffered a more marked decline than the retail so that there is relatively no loss. The purchasing policy of the store makes it possible to undersell many of its competitors and still pay dividends, partially because a marked falling off in one department is compensated for by the others...
...books are news. Unless otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 205 East 42nd St., New York City...