Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revising the tax exemption on local government securities, thus removing some of the benefits of buying municipal bonds instead of corporation stocks...
...Liberalizing the "carry-back" and "carry-forward" tax provisions which enable businessmen to cut their business losses...
...Allowing businessmen to speed up amortization, for tax purposes, of new plants and equipment, thus encouraging them to expand...
...World War II ended, the post exchanges and ships' service stores kept right on selling so many items at less than retail prices that private merchants complained loudly enough for Congress 'to hear them. Military stores, they said, were peddling luxury goods, like fur coats and watches, tax free; groceries were being sold at wholesale prices in direct competition with local merchants, and large numbers of servicemen were buying goods for civilian friends...
...help servicemen buy furniture below retail prices, on the theory that they moved their household effects frequently and that "three moves equals one fire" in wear & tear. Not much furniture was sold, but plenty of orders were filled, many for officers with a taste for diamond rings, fur coats (tax free), sterling silver and automobiles...