To Provide Revenue for War Purposes: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12863, to Provide Revenue, and for Other Purposes ... |
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... weighs most heavily upon brokers who are members of a small exchange like the St. Louis Stock Exchange , many of whom , by reason of small number of transactions made on the exchange , have a limited income from their membership .
... weighs most heavily upon brokers who are members of a small exchange like the St. Louis Stock Exchange , many of whom , by reason of small number of transactions made on the exchange , have a limited income from their membership .
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It pays already more than $ 1 differential by reason of the import duty . These cigarettes weigh 3 pounds to the thousand . The tax on imported tobacco is 35 cents a pound . That is $ 1.05 , making no allowance whatever for the waste ...
It pays already more than $ 1 differential by reason of the import duty . These cigarettes weigh 3 pounds to the thousand . The tax on imported tobacco is 35 cents a pound . That is $ 1.05 , making no allowance whatever for the waste ...
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... and I honestly believe that if it were put on the Government would lose money in the end , by reason of the company's not being able to make the money that it formerly did , and therefore not paying it in excessprofits taxes ...
... and I honestly believe that if it were put on the Government would lose money in the end , by reason of the company's not being able to make the money that it formerly did , and therefore not paying it in excessprofits taxes ...
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That is the reason for that , I think . The retailer was perfectly honest . The ČHAIRMAN . And contemporaneously with that increase in the tax occurred a very heavy increase in the price of leaf tobacco or raw material ? Mr. FULLER .
That is the reason for that , I think . The retailer was perfectly honest . The ČHAIRMAN . And contemporaneously with that increase in the tax occurred a very heavy increase in the price of leaf tobacco or raw material ? Mr. FULLER .
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The bank is not going to loan them money , for the simple reason that the same condition will come on to them next year . The bank is not going to loan money unless it has some chance of getting it back — at least no bank that I know of ...
The bank is not going to loan them money , for the simple reason that the same condition will come on to them next year . The bank is not going to loan money unless it has some chance of getting it back — at least no bank that I know of ...
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Page 207 - ... whether made upon or shown by the books of the association, company, or corporation, or by any assignment in blank, or by any delivery, or by any paper or agreement or memorandum or other evidence of transfer or sale...
Page 316 - That the provisions of this shall not be construed to apply to the sale, distribution, giving away, dispensing, or possession of preparations and remedies which do not contain more than two grains of opium, or more than one-fourth of a grain of morphine, or more than one-eighth of a grain of heroin, or more than one grain of codeine, or any salt or derivative of any of them in one fluid ounce, or. if a solid or semisolid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce...
Page 290 - The amount received by the insured as a return of premium or premiums paid by him under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at the maturity of the term mentioned in the contract or upon surrender of the contract...
Page 321 - ... or any salt or derivative of any of them in one fluid ounce, or, if a solid or semisolid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce ; or to liniments, ointments, or other preparations which are prepared for external use only, except liniments, ointments, and other preparations which contain cocaine or any of its salts or alpha or beta eucaine or any of their salts or any synthetic substitute for them...
Page 207 - Provided further, That the tax shall not be imposed upon deliveries or transfers to a broker for sale, nor upon deliveries or transfers by a broker to a customer for whom and upon whose order he has purchased same, but such deliveries or transfers shall be accompanied by a certificate setting forth the facts: Provided further.
Page 243 - ... uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters patent, or trade-mark, or which, if prepared by any formula, published or unpublished, are held out or recommended to the public by the makers, venders, or proprietors thereof as proprietary medicines or medicinal proprietary articles or preparations, or as remedies or specifics for any disease, diseases, or affection whatever affecting the human or animal body...
Page 594 - In the case of a corporation or partnership — (1) Actual cash paid in, (2) actual cash value of tangible property paid in other than cash for stock or shares in such corporation...
Page 586 - ... a reasonable allowance for actual reduction in flow and production to be ascertained not by the flush flow, but by the settled production or regular flow; (b) in the case of mines a reasonable allowance for depletion thereof not to exceed the market value in the mine of the product thereof which has been mined and sold during the year for which the return and computation are made...
Page 480 - Any amount paid out for new buildings or for permanent improvements or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate...
Page 32 - I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
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| Title | To Provide Revenue for War Purposes: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12863, to Provide Revenue, and for Other Purposes ... Part 1 of To Provide Revenue for War Purposes: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12863, to Provide Revenue, and for Other Purposes, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance |
| Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 |
| Original from | the Library of Congress |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 656 pages |
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