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...House upped the rate on so-called excess profits from last year's effective maximum of 72.4% to a new high of 90%. This rate looks lower than the 100% excess-profits tax in England, but actually there are four reasons why the U.S. tax is stiffer...
...Baron Body plant by the Briggs Mfg. Co., which switched last year from automobile bodies to planes. In that efficient technical school Briggs executives, plant managers and foremen study side by side with green boy & girl apprentices, old auto workers, Negroes. Briggs executives have a stiffer course, must get 70% on their report cards or be flunked...
...headaches OPA will get when it starts enforcing overall price ceilings and rationing more goods. OPA will get tougher, ride the limit on penalties ($10,000 fine and/or a year in jail). But bootlegging will still flourish, until U.S. excess purchasing power is sopped up at the source: with stiffer taxes, forced savings, credit controls. A fiscal problem needs a fiscal solution, or it is not solved...
These people paid a stiffer price than if they had been unable to borrow at all. If a taxpayer is really broke and files a return without paying, few communities would charge him more than 6% or 8% interest on a real-estate tax delinquency. Most States would charge 6% on an income-tax delinquency. So would the Federal Government...
...fear for the company's future prodded the Kearney family into selling their half of K. & T. Instead it was the fear of much stiffer capital-gains taxes this year. By getting out nf hours before 1941's end, the Kearneys pay only 1941 tax rates on the huge sale. To help the ladies under the wire, Blyth & Co. (with co-underwriters The Wisconsin Co.) handed over the cash before they had sold a single share of stock. Their gallant risk panned out. This week investors were anteing $5,249,200 for the 198,083 K. & T. shares...