Word: surtax
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...interim before the enforcement of the new law a surtax, in addition to the present uniform 5% tariff, shall be levied as follows: 5% on ordinary goods, 20% on luxuries, 30% on wine and tobacco...
...Treasury does not propose any definite rates, but it presents to you the certainty that tax reform can go to a 25% maximum normal and surtax without the slightest danger to our future revenues. In fact, such a reform will insure the source from which we expect to get our revenue in the future...
...Democrats propose abolition of many special taxes, retention of the Federal inheritance tax at lower rates, reduction of the surtax, an indefinite amount and increase of personal exemption, perhaps to $5,000. Different Democrats, of course, present slightly different plans; they have not got together...
...reduction; lowering maximum, normal and surtax rates to less than...
Congressman Henry W. Watson of Pennsylvania: A maximum surtax...