Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article "The Beatles Besieged" [May 30], TIME erred in stating that I was indicted for income tax evasion-a felony. In February 1966, I pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of failure to file federal payroll tax returns with respect to income and social security taxes withheld from employees. All the monies withheld, approximately $8,000, were paid to the federal authorities prior to February...
...Tranquilizers. Even when Nixon has made specific recommendations, Congress has been slow to move. He has proposed a social security benefit increase and a fiscal package that includes retention of the income tax surcharge. He has sent up measures on law enforcement, pornography control, Selective Service reform, foreign aid, Post Office reorganization and Electoral College revision. Some of these and other proposals came relatively late, after Congress' Easter recess in April, and are just getting into the committee machinery. But on the social security issue, House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills has already let it be known that...
...pollution caused by cars, trucks, buses and other machinery. He calls for a circumferential monorail in Manhattan, which would ease congestion on traffic-crammed city streets. -, He also suggests that Coney Island be turned into a Las Vegas East, with le galized gambling that would add sizably to the tax revenues. Most of all, however, Mailer has based his campaign on two ideas: that New York City should become a separate 51st state, and that the city ought to be divided into many relatively autonomous neighborhoods...
Neighborhood Power. On the financial side, Mailer argues that the city pays $14 billion in income taxes to Washington and Albany - but gets back only $3 billion. If the city were a separate state,* it would get to keep a greater proportion of the tax money it ex ports. What is more, it would be freed from legislative control by the present state government, which is often hostile to city demands. At the same time, says Mailer, if he is elected in November, "a small miracle would have happened. At that moment the city would have declared that...
...such as Peabody Terrace) cannot be opened to non-Harvard residents without substantially increasing rents (even assuming, implausibly, that displacing students in favor of others would solve either group's housing problem). Such student buildings are legally exempt from taxation, though voluntary payments to the city in lieu of taxes are now made. Admitting non-students would terminate the tax exemption, the property taxes to be paid would be larger than the present in-lieu payments, and rents accordingly would have to be raised...