Word: taxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SEVERAL WEEKS AGO his mother had forwarded the notice from the Commonwealth. It informed him, bluntly, that he had 19 days in which to pay the overdue excise tax for 1967 on his "BHW--1955-250cc." He thought he'd paid it last February, but the cancelled check was nowhere in the litter of his records, so here he was in the City Treasurer's Office...
...talked with someone on the phone yesterday about an overdue excise tax...
...Listen, would you please check and make sure I didn't send you the tax? I couldn't find the cancelled check, but I was certain I'd sent it." (Christ. Evidently the amount of the excise was added to your bill every time they sent you a notice...
...Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, warned early in the campaign that he would oppose elimination of the surtax "unless additional, very stringent economies are placed in effect." Mills takes an even dimmer view of the President-elect's pet scheme to offer private enterprise tax incentives for tackling pollution control, ghetto job training and slum rebuilding. He argues that such tax breaks would result in "a very material reduction in federal revenue," and flatly predicts that the new Administration "won't get anywhere" in putting them before Congress...
Another feature of both devaluation plans is that West Germany--France's principal trading partner--would put a tax on its exports and reduce its tax on imports. This would decrease France's recent trade deficit with Germany--one of the main causes of the present weakness of the franc...