Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 1, the fiscal year was three-quarters over. In that nine-month period the Treasury had collected $2,137,178,647 which was some 60 millions more than for the same period last year. For the first time, the March tax payments showed personal receipts ahead of those from corporations...
What Mr. McCoy had failed to forecast was the 1928 "bull" market, with a tax-paying public enriched by speculation...
...them, is the bouncing, bumping, jolting but economical 15 & 5 taxi (15? the first quarter mile, 5? further quarter miles). This landmark was last week fated to disappear. For cabmen, already handicapped by an increase in cab insurance, found themselves faced with the additional hazard of a gasoline tax. It therefore appeared probable that cab rates would jump from 30? to 35? for the first mile, from 20?to 30? for succeeding miles. Thus a five mile taxi rider would forfeit $1.55 instead...
Insulted by this prospect were taxi-minded Manhattanites. Insulted and injured were Manhattan taxi men. For, said they, the new tax was unfairly proportioned. True, last month's passage of the New York state gasoline tax (2? per gallon, effective May 1) completed the role of 48 U. S. gas-taxing states. But the private car uses about 550 gallons of gasoline a year. The taxi uses about 7,565 gallons. Inasmuch as the New York law makes no distinction between gas taxes for taxicabs and for private cars, the taxi men, with 3% of New York City automobiles...
...MacDonald, he won a sort of right to criticize the budgets of succeeding Chancellors, to sear and slash. He exercised that right last week most rashly when he rose to flay Chancellor Winston Churchill's fifth and present Budget (TIME, April 22). The Chancellor (Conservative) had abolished the tax on tea which Englishmen have paid grumblingly since the middle of the 17th century, which American colonists refused to pay at their famed "Boston Tea Party." Throughout England last week the retail price of tea- which Britons drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence...