Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, Fla., the Federal Government filed a tax lien against the Palm Island mansion of Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of imprisoned Gangster Al Capone...
lien was for $17.166 taxes on Gangster Capone's 1926-29 income. Next day in Jacksonville Mrs. Capone entered suit against the Federal Government through J. Edwin Larsen, collector of internal revenue in Florida, for $52,103 which she claimed was unjustly collected from her to pay her husband's back taxes after he was found guilty of tax evasion in 1931. Mrs. Capone said she was not responsible for her husband's taxes. When his ig-year-old step-daughter Dorothy returned to his Salt Lake City house at midnight, 80-year-old Hiram Dempsey...
...last three years and show no signs of falling. Casting about for some way of adding substantial millions to the city's revenues, they fished out a plan first proposed five years ago but hitherto regarded as too drastic to touch. This was a tax of four mills on every dollar of most of the "personal property" (securities) held in Philadelphia by mutual savings banks and mutual life and fire insurance companies. This time the Council passed the tax and put it up to Mayor Wilson for approval...
...Presbyterian Ministers' Fund for Life Insurance ($26,000,000). Most of these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched against the tax a high-pressure campaign seldom equalled in Philadelphia except by the bumptious mayor himself (TIME...
...hearing Mayor Wilson permitted the City Council to withdraw the ordinance, promised to veto it if it were ever submitted to him again. This apparently unqualified defeat was not so complete as it appeared. The Council had arranged a compromise whereby the insurance companies will accept a 2% tax on all premiums paid by policyholders living in Philadelphia. Penn Mutual will thereby pay about $100,000 annually. To the mayor this week was to go the honor of announcing this agreement...