Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be prosperous enough next fiscal year to produce budget-balancing revenues. Said the President: "If Government spending is held within the limits set in the proposed budget, the growth of our economy will make it possible in the reasonably foreseeable future to provide a significant further step in tax reform and reduction...
...billion increase in the Government's income. Insisting that his revenue forecast is "realistic," the President noted that after the 1953-54 recession, the jump in federal revenues ''was more than the increase estimated in this budget." He asked Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain, suffering taxpayer, the President held...
Jews who first applied as much as four years ago line up daily in front of the Ministry of Interior, often remaining overnight in the street to be sure of getting admittance next morning. Applicants have to shuffle through 80 different government tax offices collecting the signatures of 80 uncooperative clerks attesting that they have settled all tax claims...
...first, the uproar had not seemed much more than the complaining of a few free-spirited tribal chiefs aroused by the tax collectors. A Royal Commission sent out from the capital in Rabat reported that the trouble was mainly economic and social-the tribesmen felt they were being treated like poor relations by the "city slickers" in the government. But privately, they warned that the problem was serious. Tribal leaders were "in touch" with the Algerian rebels, and spoiling for trouble. Their quarrel, insisted the tribesmen, was only with the politicians, not with King Mohammed...
...estimates that these four changes would yield $118 million in extra tax revenue. At the same time, the group maintains that they would neither increase the burden upon the poor as much as a sales tax, nor "soak the rich...