Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Lloyd Wilson of San Francisco, publicity man for the Y.M.C.A., made out his income tax for 1936, he wondered how much to deduct for his baby daughter, Helen. Had she been born in January of that year he would have deducted the full $400 allowance for a dependent. But she had been born in August. That certainly entitled him to deduct five-twelfths...
...occurred to Taxpayer Wilson that his new dependent had been living, at least since her moment of "quickening" as a three-month-old embryo, in February 1936. Father Wilson allowed himself a deduction of eleven-twelfths of $400. The Bureau of Internal Revenue came back at him for $6.18 tax deficiency on that return, allowing him exemption for Baby Helen only after her birth...
...from a father who dies before the child is born. It calls abortion murder. Mrs. Wilson also added an argument: "The doctor's bill started long be fore the child was born. . . . The cost of supporting a child doesn't wait until its birth." The board of Tax Appeals, lacking a precedent to go by, reserved decision...
...Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime chairman of the National City Bank, who four years ago started over again at the bottom and is now chairman of Blyth & Co., last week settled (for an unrevealed sum) the Government's tax claim of $1,384,222 against...
...annual meeting in Manhattan, heard from its President William Fellowes Morgan that its assets now stand at a fat $33,000,000. A new problem, however, faced the Fund-the possibility that the Social Security Act may soon be amended to include non-profit organizations, thus piling a 3% tax upon the 7½% of clerical salaries which Episcopal dioceses pay annually into the Fund...