Word: taxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the committee discovered that one way, apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...
...redeem the pledges, Earl proposed: 1) a nickel-a-bottle beer tax (highest in the U.S.); 2) a gasoline tax boost from 7? to 9? a gallon (highest in the U.S.); 3) a 100% boost in the state sales tax (from 1? to 2? ); 4) a $100 tax on slot machines (although they are illegal); 5) increased levies on natural gas and crude oil. Estimated yearly haul...
...punish Chep Morrison, Earl would cut New Orleans' sales tax from 2% to 1% (an annual reduction of $4,500,000) thereby crippling all city services from garbage collection to law enforcement. Just to make sure of his grip on New Orleans' police and fire departments, Earl planned to dominate them through an eleven-man board consisting of the mayor, his commissioner of public safety and nine Long henchmen...
...sales tax comes off silver plate and watches with Braille dials (of which 300 were sold in Canada last year...
...Amusement taxes of 20% and 25% and the 5% tax on pari-mutuel betting are abandoned, at a cost to the Dominion of $23½ million annually. (At least three of the provinces will impose similar taxes to fill their own tills...