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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... suggestion at all . The retail sales of this country , speaking commercially , are about 20 billion dollars . I have never found any way of estimating those sales that are not strictly commercial . The CHAIRMAN . You also said that ...
... suggestion at all . The retail sales of this country , speaking commercially , are about 20 billion dollars . I have never found any way of estimating those sales that are not strictly commercial . The CHAIRMAN . You also said that ...
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... suggestions : Under the provisions of the pending revenue bill brokers are to be taxed $ 100 , but if they are members of an exchange , such as the Chicago Board of Trade , the leading grain exchange of the world , they are penalized ...
... suggestions : Under the provisions of the pending revenue bill brokers are to be taxed $ 100 , but if they are members of an exchange , such as the Chicago Board of Trade , the leading grain exchange of the world , they are penalized ...
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... suggestions . We do not see any need for all these detailed taxes on consumption and things of that sort . I hope ... suggestion of the Ways and Means Committee and the Treasury Department about these consumption taxes on luxuries ...
... suggestions . We do not see any need for all these detailed taxes on consumption and things of that sort . I hope ... suggestion of the Ways and Means Committee and the Treasury Department about these consumption taxes on luxuries ...
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... suggestion on the part of the Treasury , and I do not speak personally about Mr. McAdoo , but may I say that we should not waste the power of a single man or woman during this war ? We have been looking over the fashion plates of the ...
... suggestion on the part of the Treasury , and I do not speak personally about Mr. McAdoo , but may I say that we should not waste the power of a single man or woman during this war ? We have been looking over the fashion plates of the ...
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... suggestion is an indirect and impracticable method of at- tempting to reduce consumption and secure revenue at the same time . We say impracticable " on the basis of the experience of our allies , which have tried the system of taxation ...
... suggestion is an indirect and impracticable method of at- tempting to reduce consumption and secure revenue at the same time . We say impracticable " on the basis of the experience of our allies , which have tried the system of taxation ...
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Page 205 - ... 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 314 - 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 288 - 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 319 - ... 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 205 - 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 241 - ... 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 592 - 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 584 - ... 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 478 - Any amount paid out for new buildings or for permanent improvements or betterments made to increase the value of any property or estate...
Page 30 - 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.