Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...More than $2,000,000,000 in taxes have been refunded or credited since 1921. More than $1,000,000,000 in tax refund claims are now pending...
Secretary Mellon said he took the action because of "unexpressed Congressional policy" and added: "The publication of the decisions will . . . show conclusively that the Treasury has nothing to hide, that there .is nothing mysterious about tax refunds...
Cinema stars are seldom good mathematicians. Confronted with the U. S. income tax, many of them are reduced to flabby incompetence. They journey across the U. S. from Hollywood to "fix things up" personally at the Treasury Department. That grey classic building, they have found, affords a new and unusual background for "still" pictures of themselves on business bent. Last year Secretary Mellon's department had the honor of professional calls from Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Barthelmess...
...Hollywood habit of turning income tax matters over to "counselors" who promise to save a taxpayer large sums provided the benefits are equitably divided, has now led to a terrifying state of affairs. Two such "counselors" for cinema folk, Miss Marjorie Berger and Edward H. Hayden, were last week indicted by a U. S. grand jury in Los Angeles on charges of preparing fraudulent tax returns for their big-salaried clients. Cinemactors and actresses quaked at the possibility of conspiracy charges...
...contended that Miss Berger had saved Rod La Roque some $24,000 tax payments on a $182,779 income in 1927. Other of her clients were William Haines and Dorothy Mackaill...