Word: taxed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Later in the week Budget Director Frank Pace Jr. flew in with his troubles. The budget for fiscal 1951, he told newsmen, would be "under $45 billion." He added: "In my judgment the budget cannot be balanced without additional taxes." It was also obvious, though he did not say so, that Congress was unlikely to be in a tax-increasing mood. The U.S., already $256 billion in debt and likely to add $5.5 billion to its burden this year, found little warmth in the news that it might go into the red another $7 billion next year...
...Dealers, had been doing his level best not to get the Truman plan confused in the public's mind with the British plan. The Truman plan, to cost $4.5 billion a year at the start and more later, would be financed a little differently (by a direct payroll tax) and presumably be more limited in coverage. Well, would the U.S. program pass out wigs, spectacles and false teeth, just like Britain's? a reporter wanted to know...
...Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products and bus fares got state subsidies, while income taxes were hiked and new taxes levied on horse-race betting, cigarettes, soft drinks and automobiles. And for the first time, tax-dodgers were made liable to imprisonment...
Hilton will pay for his investment with two-thirds of his yearly profits. The rest of what he makes, an estimated $300,000 a year, will belong to Hilton tax free...
...lure U.S. capital and industrialists to the island, the Puerto Rican government grants tax exemption to many new industries until...