Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again, in appealing to the princes and nobles, he wrote: "We owe this revolt to none other on earth than to you . . . who are hardened to the present day and do not cease to rage against the Holy Gospel, and in your secular government do nothing else than tax and extort . . . until the poor and common man can no longer endure it. The sword is hanging over your heads, and yet you think that your seat in the saddle is secured. Such obdurate foolhardiness will cost you your neck. You must change and obey the Word...
...wanted to do some wishful thinking about the future) make the headlines say that he had pulled off the almost forgotten trick of balancing the budget. The figures also told him, and so did some of his advisers, that he might easily take the ever-popular step of recommending tax cuts...
...good news in the budget, for old-fashioned citizens who still wonder where the astronomical figures of Government finance are leading, was the fact that it will not increase the public debt. The war's sudden ending, said Harry Truman, had left a $26 billion cash balance of tax receipts and borrowed money in the Treasury. Some of this could be used to pay for 1947's deficit. Another $4 billion of the cash could be used to reduce the debt-for the first time since...
Three years later, she got a letter from an Internal Revenue employe which began, in effect: "Now, about that $180 tax. ..." Mrs. Washburn appealed to the U.S. tax court. Last week, nearly five years after she had spent the money, the court agreed that Mrs. Washburn was $180 better off for not particularly liking radio. Because she was not listening to the Pot o' Gold program, she was obviously not participating in the show. Therefore, said the Court, the $900 was clearly not a prize, but a tax-exempt gift...
...H.A.A. will be open from 9 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon to handle requests for the discount-tickets, which sell at $1, $.75, and $.50. plus tax...