Revenue to Defray War Expenses: Hearings & Briefs... on H.R. 4280U.S. Government Printing Office, 1917 - 665 pages |
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... remedies or specifics for any disease , diseases , or affection whatever affecting the human or animal body . " It goes without saying that the 5 per cent tax on finished medicines , the manufacturer's tax , the doubling of the tax on ...
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Page 68 - ... life insurance companies issuing policies covering life, health, and accident insurance combined in one policy issued on the weekly premium payment plan...
Page 20 - ... in the case of a bank, banking association, loan, or trust company, interest paid within the year on deposits or on moneys received for investment and secured by interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness issued by such bank, banking association, loan or trust company...
Page 18 - An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes," the Act of October 3, 1913, entitled "An Act to reduce tariff duties and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes...
Page 611 - grass" and "straw" shall be understood to mean these substances in their natural form and structure, and not the separated fiber thereof.
Page 247 - An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes," approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen...
Page 51 - An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions of fortifications, and for other purposes...
Page 8 - ... employers, and all officers and employees of the United States having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of interest, rent, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities...
Page 611 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced or manufactured wholly or in part in any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this provision.
Page 30 - ... paid in or earned surplus and undivided profits used or employed in the business...
Page 177 - dividends' as used in this title shall be held to mean any distribution made or ordered to be made by a corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, out of its earnings or profits accrued since March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and payable to its shareholders, whether in cash or in stock of the corporation, joint-stock company, association, or insurance company, which stock dividend shall be considered income, to the amount of the earnings or profits so distributed.