Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indirect taxes were slashed on a wide range of items. Most spectacular was a cut of about 2$ on a pint of beer, which, observed Amory, is "a fitting celebration perhaps of the achievements of an exhausting decade." Purchase tax on cars, TV sets and cosmetics is to fall from 60% to 50% ; on washing machines, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners it drops from...
...Increased tax write-offs will benefit business, spurring investment and plant construction...
...Dalai Lama prove his "solidarity" by ordering his 5,000-man bodyguard against the rebels. It was a shrewd move, for in the past Lhasa had had its own troubles with the Khambas, who recognized the spiritual rule of the Dalai Lama but had a habit of killing his tax gatherers and robbing caravans. The God-King solved it neatly: he sent a message to the Khambas saying cryptically that "bloodshed was not the answer," but flatly refused to lend Tibetan troops on a punitive expedition...
...independent gas producers. While Phillips will be permitted to raise its overall rates by $14 million, Examiner Zwindler rejected firmly a flock of hypothetical costs totaling $35 million, which Phillips wanted included in its rate base. Chief among these was an item of $11 million for federal income taxes that Phillips does not have to pay because of the 27½% oil and gas depletion allowance. Phillips argued that it still should be allowed to charge customers for the nonexistent tax...
...Hampshire group has asked for an amendment to the Federal Constitution abolishing the non-resident income tax. But the federal government has never attempted to abrogate the right of the state to tax those working within its jurisdiction nor does it appear ready...