Word: tax
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...connection with this bill W. D. Trefry, Tax Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, has filed with the State Legislature a special report on the exemption from taxation of the property of educational and public institutions and the effect which this exemption has upon the finances of the cities and towns in which such institutions are. The report is an exhaustive treatise on a situation which has caused much discussion in Massachusetts in recent years...
...question in regard to the exemption of the property of educational institutions is much more difficult of solution. There are in the state thirteen cities and towns in which the percentage of land owned by educational institutions equals or exceeds three percent. These places present a variety of tax rates, ranging from $10 a thousand up as high as $22.50. They present, also, a variety of percentages of indebtedness ranging from zero in the case of Wilbraham to .076 in the case of Cambridge...
...report analyzes the financial condition of Cambridge, and although it does not recommend any legislation, it goes so far as to say that a college can not go on taking acres of land from the tax list without placing a burden upon the municipality; that the places in which such burden will be first apparent are those of small area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University...
...subject on which the contestants spoke was the one for the triangular debate: "Resolved, That the federal government should have power to impose an income tax not apportioned among the states according to population." Each of the twelve men retained from the second trial spoke ten minutes, and was given five minutes for rebuttal...
...Collier '11, F. W. Sullivan '10, G. I. Lewis 2L., H. Potter '10, E. R. Burke 2L., T. M. Gregory '10. They will speak in the order named upon the subject for the triangular debate: "Resolved, That the federal government should have power to impose an income tax not apportioned among the States according to population." Each man will speak for 10 minutes and will be given 5 minutes for rebuttal. As a result of these trials six men to make up the two University teams, and three men for substitutes, will be retained...