Word: taxman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celebration of One Thousand Years of British Gardening," includes architectural plans of medieval and Tudor landscapes, assorted tools of the trade (including the first mechanical lawnmower, a green-and-red contraption patented in 1830), and paintings that preserve the image of estates long since lost to the taxman and the decline of great fortunes. Many of Britain's fine gardens still flourish, however, thanks largely to the conservation efforts of the National Trust, a volunteer organization that administers 100 gardens and some 200 historic buildings. This year, using funds collected from its 816,000 members, from legacies and from...
...does not happen very often, but sometimes, when the taxman bites, taxpayers bite back. Homeowners in Los Angeles County were stunned this July when they were hit with reassessments ranging up to 100%. The Angelenos rebelled. They staged protests, bombarded the county tax assessor with nearly 20,000 appeals and at a recent forum hooted Mayor Tom Bradley and other politicians right off the podium. Getting the thunderous message, the California state legislature empowered the Los Angeles County board of supervisors to reopen hearings on the budget...
...disburse. This is in addition to what businesses must spend for vacations, holidays and sick leaves. The individual Swede also pays for his privileges, in the form of some of the world's highest income taxes; that industrial worker who earns $11,250, for instance, must give the taxman $4,125. Levies on the half-million self-employed Swedes-professionals, farmers, intellectuals and small businessmen-are even more onerous. The maximum tax rate is supposed to be 85%, but in one recent, celebrated case involving Astrid Lindgren, a writer of children's books, the taxman threatened to take...
...class" Socialist country, in which he has been stripped of all real power and even subjected to the levies of the taxman, Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf last week was regaled with one of the few remaining circumstances still entitled to royal pomp: his wedding. Indeed, with its processions, ceremonies and feasts, last Saturday's nuptials more than lived up to its advance billing as the royal spectacular of the year...
Raia is the only person working in his part of the building, the brick part, these days. There are two other offices there, but both are empty. Taxman, an income-tax company, is closed in the off- (not near April 15) season and will reopen in January, as it does every year. AID, Inc., which finds temporary employees for businesses, is shut down for good. Business was bad in the Concord Building, and AID is scouting for a new location...