Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country's income for fiscal 1929 and 1930, Secretary Mellon figured that Customs would increase 14 millions over 1928, to an annual total of 582 millions. Internal Revenue is figured for a drop of 52 millions in 1929 and eight more millions in 1930. The income tax provides the bulk of Internal Revenue. Income tax figures...
...liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg way, and distributed through unlicensed channels...
Argentina is the melting pot of South America. Article XXV of the Argentine Constitution provides: "The Federal Government shall encourage European immigration and shall not restrict, limit, or place any tax upon the entry into Argentine territory of foreigners who come with the object of cultivating the soil and engaging in local industries...
...good-sized yacht can be designed and built in five months. It takes a longer period when the yacht is U. S. designed and German built. The cost of building a yacht in Germany is 50% to 33% less than in the U. S., but there is a 30% tax on foreign-built yachts. U. S. architects are giving an increasing amount of business to U. S. shipyards because they have demonstrated their ability to build yachts more luxurious and equally as sturdy as German-built craft...
Many of the pieces in Innocent Bystanding have appeared in Mr. Sullivan's column in the World and in the New Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...