The first of which to find important place in our federal government was the graduated income tax under Wilson.

Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.

That such expansion can be obtained without a raise in taxes is due to growth of the tax digest and sound fiscal planning on the part of the board of commissioners, headed by Chairman Charles O. Emmerich who is demonstrating that the public trust he was given was well placed, and other county officials.

For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.

This tax was discontinued in 1936.

It is difficult to tabulate exactly what was meant in each individual situation, but the conclusion may be drawn that 21 towns do not assess movable personal property, and of the remainder only certain types are valued for tax purposes.

It has been said that when local government revenues were mostly produced locally from the property tax, the lack of a uniform fiscal year was no great handicap ; ;

A minor who has gross income of less than $600 is entitled to a refund if income tax was withheld from his wages.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

It was then that I availed myself of the rights of a citizen and declared the income tax unconstitutional.

Revenue Ruling 54-17 provides that if the corporation against which a tax was assessed has since been liquidated by merger with a successor corporation, a claim for refund should be filed by the successor in the name and on behalf of the corporation which paid the tax, followed by the name of the successor corporation.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

Several signers affixed their names, it was learned, after being told that no tax increase would be possible without consent of the General Assembly and that a provision could be included in the charter to have the town take over the Johnston Sanitary District sewer system.

But the tardiness of the administration in making the dedication has caused legislators to suspect the tax bill was related more directly to an over-all shortage of cash than to segregation.

Indeed, the administration's curious position on the sales tax was a major factor in contributing to its defeat.

Emory University's Board of Trustees announced Friday that it was prepared to accept students of any race as soon as the state's tax laws made such a step possible.

The absence of a tax base meant that there was no way to pay off state and national debts from the war years except by requesting money from the states, which seldom arrived.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

" The annual poll tax was only $ 1. 50.

Lavoisier was a powerful figure in the deeply unpopular Ferme Générale, 28 feudal tax collectors who were known to profit immensely by exploiting their position.

Even with them, however, Rousseau went too far, courting rejection when he criticized the practice of tax farming, in which some of them engaged.

The government period was tough and it was strongly criticized by trade unions and party members for all savings and tax increases that were made.

Some green tax shift proposals have been criticized as being fiscally regressive ( a tax with an average tax rate that decreases as the taxpayer's income increases ).

This was criticized by the conservative opposition as contrary to business interests, and they abolished the tax in 2003 after seizing back the government.

During her campaign, Whitman criticized the income tax hike proposed by then Gov.

Democratic U. S. presidential candidate John Kerry criticized U. S. firms that outsource jobs abroad or that incorporate overseas in tax havens to avoid paying their " fair share " of U. S. taxes during his 2004 campaign, calling such firms " Benedict Arnold corporations ".

He criticized a tax referendum proposed by Voinovich in 1980, which voters eventually approved.

Some have criticized the current trend of developing the " New Salamanca " as a tax free cigarette / gas haven.

Chamorro was also criticized for rejecting constitutional reforms that included a prohibition of nepotism, a requirement for legislative approval to tax and spend money, a decrease in the length of the presidential term from six to five years, and the expansion of constitutional liberties.

In 1996, Congress cut the NEA funding to $ 99. 5 million as a result of pressure from conservative groups, including the American Family Association, who criticized the agency for using tax dollars to fund highly controversial artists such as Robert Clark Young, Barbara Degenevieve, Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the performance artists known as the " NEA Four ".

Investor and multi-billionaire Warren Buffett has criticized the US tax code as highly regressive, citing himself as anecdotal evidence: Buffett stated that with an income of over $ 46 million, he pays a tax rate of 17. 7 %, whereas his receptionist pays a tax rate of 30 %.

This tax has been criticized for its " cascading " or " pyramiding " effect, in which an item is taxed more than once as it makes its way from production to final retail sale.

Amazon. com has been criticized for not collecting sales tax, and has intentionally disaffiliated itself from businesses in certain states to continue doing so legally.

Many of the policy prescriptions ( e. g., the privatization of state industries, tax reform, and deregulation ) are criticized as mechanisms for ensuring the development of a small, wealthy, indigenous elite in the Third World who will rise to political power and also have a vested interest in maintaining the local status quo of labor exploitation.

He was the first Democrat in the Senate to publicly declare his support for the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, a broad-based tax cut which was criticized by opponents for favoring the rich and being fiscally irresponsible.

In December 2011, the non-partisan organization Public Campaign criticized Corning for spending $ 2. 81 million on lobbying and not paying any taxes during 2008 – 2010, instead getting $ 4 million in tax rebates, despite making a profit of $ 1. 98 billion and having a total compensation for the top 5 executives between $ 35 and $ 45 million per year.

In July 2012 Susan Ford, Corning's Vice President of Tax, was criticized for telling the United States House Committee on Ways and Means that America's high corporate tax rate put American manufacturers at a distinct disadvantage to competitors headquartered in other countries, despite the fact that in 2011 Corning paid taxes at an actual rate of-0. 2 %.

On 1 August 1985, he resigned OMB and later wrote a memoir of his experience in the Reagan Administration titled The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed ( ISBN 0060155604 ), in which he specifically criticized the failure of congressional Republicans to endorse a reduction of government spending as necessary offsets to the large tax decreases, in order to avoid the creation of large deficits and an increasing national debt.

Marx also criticized the way land value tax theory emphasizes the value of land, arguing that, " His fundamental dogma is that everything would be all right if ground rent were paid to the state.

Notwithstanding state aid, the local governments are continuing to seek additional revenue of their own by strengthening the property tax.

Boats were indicated specifically by only one of the five towns known to tax boats.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

The forced sale of the General Motors stock owned by or allocable to Christiana, Delaware, and the stockholders of Delaware, and deposited with the trustee, would result in a tax to those parties at the capital gains rate.

If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.

The filing of an original or amended declaration, otherwise due on January 15, 1962, is also waived, if you file your Form 1040 for 1961 and pay the full tax by January 31, 1962.

The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

It would be financed by boosting the social security payroll tax by as much as $37 a year for each of the workers now paying such taxes.

The payroll tax would actually rise to 7.5 per cent starting Jan. 1, 1963, if the plan is approved, because the levy is already scheduled to go up by 1 per cent on that date to pay for other social security costs.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

Such `` depletion allowances '', in the form of percentages of sales are authorized by tax law for specified raw materials producers using up their assets.

The Washington state supreme court ruled that the state's occupation tax applied to sales, made at cost to an oil company, by a wholly-owned subsidiary set up to purchase certain supplies without divulging the identity of the parent.