Utility Ratepayer Refunds; Indian Fishing Rights; and United Nations Housing Benefits: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1049 ... H.R. 2792 ... December 14, 1987, Volume 4 |
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accelerated depreciation accounting affiliate allowed amount ANDREWS assets average rate assumption bill Byron Dorgan Cash Flow Chairman RANGEL Commissioner Committee consumers corporate tax corporate tax rate cost of capital cost of service customers December 14 deferred tax reserves Department diversification DORGAN economic effect electric equity excess deferred taxes excess tax reserves Federal income tax flow-through funds House increase Indian tribes Internal Revenue Code Internal Revenue Service issue legislation McGRATH million net present value normalization Pacific Power PacifiCorp PP&L rate assumption method rate base rate reduction ratemaking Ratepayer Refund Act RBOCS regulatory commissions repeal result Section 203 SELECT REVENUE MEASURES statement STEUERLE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SELECT tax benefits tax depreciation tax expense tax laws tax liabilities Tax Reform Act taxable taxation testimony Thank tion Treasury tribal Tulalip Tribes United utility companies Utility Ratepayer Refund utility rates utility's Washington WDSI Western Distribution windfall
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Page 334 - A cardinal rule in dealing with written instruments is that they are to receive an unvarying interpretation, and that their practical construction is to be uniform. A Constitution is not to be made to mean one thing at one time, and another at some subsequent time when the circumstances may have so changed as perhaps to make a different rule in the case seem desirable.
Page 357 - We agree with the Government that Indians are citizens and that in ordinary affairs of life, not governed by treaties or remedial legislation, they are subject to the payment of income taxes as are other citizens.
Page 331 - Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States, members of, and owing immediate allegiance to, one of the Indian tribes (an alien, though dependent, power), although in a geographical sense born in the United States, are no more "born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof...
Page 330 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Ind.ians, not taxed, are hereby declared tp be citizens of the United States...
Page 384 - States; and that the treaty must therefore be construed, not according to the technical meaning of its words to learned lawyers, but in the sense in which they would naturally be understood by the Indians (Worcester v, Georgia, 6 Pet.
Page 349 - It is our responsibility to see that the terms of the treaty are carried out, so far as possible, In accordance with the meaning they were understood to have by the tribal representatives In the council and in a spirit which generously recognizes the full obligation of this Nation to protect the interests of a dependent people.
Page 347 - The right to resort to the fishing places in controversy was a part of larger rights possessed by the Indians, upon the exercise of which there was not a shadow of Impediment, and which were not much less necessary to the existence of the Indians than the atmosphere they breathed.
Page 361 - The right of taking fish at usual and accustomed grounds and stations is further secured to said Indians in common with all citizens of the Territory, and of erecting temporary houses for the purpose of curing, together with the privilege of hunting and gathering roots and berries on open and unclaimed lands.
Page 331 - States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof," within the meaning of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, than the children of subjects of any foreign government born within the domain of that government, or the children born within the United States, of ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign nations.
Page 150 - RESEARCH CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, My name Is Dr. Mark N. Cooper. I am Director of Research of the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) with offices at 1424 16th Street, Washington DC, 20036.