Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simon's Tax was announced to run retroactively from April 1, 1937 for five years. After taking $10,000 as its profit base, it provides generous exemptions in the brackets up to $60,000. Taxpayers with incomes up to that figure can deduct, in addition to their initial $10,000 exemption, one-fifth of the difference between their profits for the year...
Anything but simple is the great legal mind of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Allsebrook Simon, long the Empire's highest-paid lawyer. But one day last week he was suddenly congratulated by almost every London newspaper on being the author of what Britons dubbed good-humoredly "Simple Simon...
...high-powered letters of complaint and suggestion personally signed by top bigwigs of British trade, industry and finance than he had received during his whole long career as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The final result last week, after anxious daily conferences between Mr. Chamberlain and Sir John, was "Simple Simon...
...face-saver for the Prime Minister, Britain's stiff new tax has the same name as the shelved tax trap: The National Defense Contribution. Irrespective of whether a firm's profits are increasing so fast as to suggest "profiteering" or not, Simple Simon's tax is to bear with equal weight on virtually all British firms with annual net profits of more than $10,000 per year. It is a supertax. Its intent is to raise the existing average 25% income tax on British firms to 29% in the case of partnerships, 30% in the case...
...Stephen Helburn, Thomas C. Hunt, Joseph S. Isoman, John S. Kelly, Ben D. Kimpel, Edward O. Miller, James G. Miller, Lionel F. Miller, Jr., Edmund S. Morgan, Laird M. Ogle, John A. O' Keofe, Thomas L. Perry, Jr., Gerard J. Piel, Melvin Richter, Arthur M. Rosenbloom, Leonard J. Rosenfeld, Simon M. Rosenfield, Paul T. Rotter, Williah E. Rowley, Wheeler Sammons, Jr., Joseph Share, Robert F. Sharp, Joseph A. Sherrard, Jr., Philip A. Straus, Herbert Tabor, Cheves T. Walling, Ira A. Watson, Harold T. White, Jr., Harold T. White, Jr., John W. Whittlesey, Summer Willard, Eugene C. Worman...