Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been for years: something to be done tomorrow. Though the Administration did, in fact, attach a few reforms of its own to the surtax bill as a sweetener, it did not go nearly far enough to satisfy the liberals. While Nixon pledged himself to submit a more comprehensive tax-reform package to Congress this year, he has been less than specific about its contents-perhaps partly because tax revision is so enormously complicated...
Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the bill is delayed until fall, the battle against inflation may be lost altogether. While the tax will continue to be withheld from paychecks until a decision is made, the wait for final approval, say Treasury experts, undercuts their efforts to slow inflation and brake the economy. On the other hand...
...surveying this primordial and dying form of society, anthropologists hope to learn what the hunter-gatherer can tell of man's earliest history. Writes University of Chicago Anthropologist Sol Tax: "We should study the reasons for the persistence of these peoples in light of all the conditions militating against their persistence. I think that the case of the North American Indians is especially significant. They seem to be waiting for us to go away...
...tax reform proposal -- which officials of Harvard and other universities feared might cripple universities' fund raising efforts -- appears to have died in Washington...
Under the proposal, the tax deduction on gifts of stocks and other valuable property to a charitable institution (such as a university) would have been limited to the original cost of the property, rather than to its current market value, as is now the case...