Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tax-hungry government of President Charles de Gaulle last week slipped in a sly decree among its last-minute emergency measures. From now on, every town hall in France will have a "Doomsday Book," available to the public, that states precisely the amount each taxpayer contributes to the treasury. As a Finance Ministry official put it: "A citizen may notice that one of his neighbors has a rather high standard of living," then, on leafing through the Doomsday Book, he may "express some astonishment at the discrepancy between his outward signs of wealth and the amount of revenue declared...
With the coming of inflation, the income tax, mass culture and the popularization of art, the grand old Age of Acquisition has pretty much gone forever. If there are prophets in our midst to rival the Steins, the Caillebottes, the Camondos of the past, they have yet to reveal themselves. The free-swinging eccentricity of an Alfred Barnes was unique in its own day; the complexities of this decade make such a thing still less probable. And the ways of a Frick, a Havemeyer, a Johnson are, together with so many luxuries of a rococco era, simply impractical...
...last year's bad joke has become enough of a threat to arouse widespread concern and organized opposition. The proprietor of the scheme claims that whether the platform is used for industry or apartments it will considerably strengthen the city's tax base by, in effect, adding taxable land to the map of Cambridge. At the same time the artificial peninsula would enliven the city's skyline, he says...
...vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
...clean, button-down collar in offers from publishers. One book of his cartoons is a bestseller (5,000 copies a week). He appears in the London Observer, dashes off magazine ads and features (Playboy, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), is discussing a screenplay for Director Stanley (Paths of Glory) Kubrick. His income tax for 1958 will be more than his entire income for 1957 (about $7,500), and his 1959 gross promises to run into six figures. This week Feiffer and the Hall Syndicate ("Herblock," Norman Vincent Peale, Pogo) announced that starting in April his work will appear weekly in the Boston Globe...