Revenue Revision, 1932, Hearings ... Seventy-second Congress, 1st Session: January 13-27, February 2-4, 19321932 - 1237 pages |
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... United States that means the restoration of confidence , and one of the indispensable steps in the restoration of confidence is to balance the Budget and restore the credit of the United States Government . I think if we can put our ...
... United States that means the restoration of confidence , and one of the indispensable steps in the restoration of confidence is to balance the Budget and restore the credit of the United States Government . I think if we can put our ...
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January 13-27, February 2-4, 1932 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. agrees with this policy , the courageous thing to do and the right thing to do is , for the Government of the United States to stop borrowing ...
January 13-27, February 2-4, 1932 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. agrees with this policy , the courageous thing to do and the right thing to do is , for the Government of the United States to stop borrowing ...
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... United States are going to be satisfied with a reduction of expenses amount- ing only to 1.6 per cent . So I am going to suggest this for my associations , that appropria- tions in 1933 should be cut 10 per cent , and that the taxpayers ...
... United States are going to be satisfied with a reduction of expenses amount- ing only to 1.6 per cent . So I am going to suggest this for my associations , that appropria- tions in 1933 should be cut 10 per cent , and that the taxpayers ...
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... United States and that the resources of the United States are sufficient so that instead of imposing high rates of taxation now a spreading of low rates over a period of years will balance the Budget without question . I can not allow ...
... United States and that the resources of the United States are sufficient so that instead of imposing high rates of taxation now a spreading of low rates over a period of years will balance the Budget without question . I can not allow ...
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... United States with Canadian money the exchange is 17 per cent , and the Canadian with a Canadian dollar can not afford to come to the United States to buy when his dollar has a purchasing power of only 83 cents . That has had the effect ...
... United States with Canadian money the exchange is 17 per cent , and the Canadian with a Canadian dollar can not afford to come to the United States to buy when his dollar has a purchasing power of only 83 cents . That has had the effect ...
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Page 339 - February 28, 1913, the basis for depletion shall be the fair market value of the property at the date of discovery or within thirty days thereafter, if such mines were not acquired as the result of purchase of a proven tract or lease, and if the fair market value of the property is materially disproportionate to the cost.
Page 339 - ... gross income from the property during the taxable year, excluding from such gross income an amount equal to any rents or royalties paid or incurred by the taxpayer in respect of the property. Such allowance shall not exceed 50 per centum of the net income of the taxpayer (computed without allowance for depletion) from the property...
Page 163 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Page 373 - Except as otherwise provided by law in the case of income, war-profits, excess-profits, estate, and gift taxes the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to remit, refund, and pay back all taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, all penalties collected without authority, and all taxes that appear to be unjustly assessed or excessive in amount, or in any manner wrongfully collected...
Page 367 - Where upon application by the corporation the commissioner finds and so declares of record that the tax if determined without benefit of this section would, owing to abnormal conditions affecting the capital or income of the corporation, work upon the corporation an exceptional hardship evidenced by gross disproportion between the tax computed without benefit of this section and the tax computed by reference to the representative corporations specified in section 328.
Page 303 - The present assault upon capital Is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping -stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich, a war constantly growing In Intensity and bitterness.
Page 206 - ... should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the State, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the State marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.
Page 387 - ... (b) Except as provided in subdivisions (c), (d), (e), and (g) of this section — (1) No such credit or refund shall be allowed or made after three years from the time the tax was paid...
Page 339 - The basis upon which depletion, exhaustion, wear and tear, and obsolescence are to be allowed in respect of any property shall be the same as is provided in subdivision (a) or (b) for the purpose of determining the gain or loss upon the sale or other disposition of such property...
Page 206 - The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily large estates left at death is a cheering indication of the growth of a salutary change in public opinion.