Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Consideration" for farmers in framing tax measures...
...This was $27,000,000 less than had been planned. Collections dropped $51,000,000. Customs receipts dropped $36,000,000. Internal revenues dropped $24,000,000. Secretary Mellon explained that the falling off in revenues was due to "a sharp diminution" in receipts from the Federal estate (inheritance) tax and to the tax-cutting Revenue Act of 1928. He also said: "In view of the amount of discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note that with collections aggregating over two billion dollars they...
...Lavished most of the week on the Finance Bill, debating for 16 hours and finally approving a tax on "buttons imported for fastening purposes...
...moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...