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.

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.

However, this system was discontinued for fiscal reasons in the 1990s in favour of an opt-in option where voters mark their consent to be added the national voters list, or register, on their annual income tax returns.

As states become stronger, buoyed up by revenues brought in by tax farming, the practice was discontinued in favour of centralized tax collection systems.

When Demand Notes were discontinued, their successors, the Legal Tender Notes, could not be used to pay import duties, a large part of the U. S. federal tax base at the time, and thus Demand Notes took precedence.

In July 1936, stockholders of First National Pictures, Inc. ( primarily Warner Bros .) voted to dissolve the corporation and distribute its assets among the stockholders, in line with a new tax law which provided for tax-free consolidations between corporations.

The US top marginal income tax rate went from 25 % to 63 % in 1932 and to 79 % in 1936 while the bottom rate increased over 10 fold from. 375 % in 1929 to 4 % in 1932 Successful attacks on partially backed currencies which forced many countries off the gold standard and reduced confidence in the financial system, and a financial system, further damaged by the bank panics of the 1930s were also factors, as was inclement weather such as the drought resulting in the US Dust Bowl.

In 1936, the Supreme Court decided in United States v. Butler that the act was unconstitutional for levying this tax on the processors only to have it paid back to the farmers.

Aside from the 20 % tax credit, the tax incentive program offers a 10 % tax credit for rehabilitation to owners of non-historic, non-residential buildings constructed before 1936.

Along similar lines, John Maynard Keynes approving cited the idea of a carrying tax on money, ( 1936, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money ) but dismissed it due to administrative difficulties.

In 1936 British finance minister Neville Chamberlain abolished ( as it turned out, only temporarily ) the " road fund licence ", an annual car tax which had not been applied to three-wheelers and which had therefore conferred a major competitive advantage on Reliant's " three-wheeled motor goods vehicle ".

The first broad-based, general sales taxes in the United States were enacted by Kentucky and Mississippi in 1930, although Kentucky repealed its sales tax in 1936.

As a result of the damage from the 1936 flood, the Pennsylvania General Assembly imposed an emergency tax on all alcohol sold in the Commonwealth.

One of the few such cases occurred in 1936, when a safe deposit box containing over of gold belonging to Zelik Josefowitz, who was not a U. S. citizen, was seized with a search warrant as part of a tax evasion prosecution.

The VFW became a government-chartered non-profit organization by an act of the United States Congress on May 28, 1936 ; as such, it receives no funding from United States tax receipts and is supported by charitable donations.

He was convicted of tax evasion in 1936, but was granted a pardon restoring his civil rights by President Harry S. Truman in 1946.

Congress gave corporations two alternative excess profits tax credit choices: either 95 percent of average earnings for 1936 – 1939 or an invested capital credit, initially 8 percent of capital but later graduated from 5 to 8 percent.

Those rebates were part of the original 1936 taxation act ( section 46 ), meaning that the principle of eliminating double taxation has been present to some degree in Australian income tax law for a very long time.

" The sales tax was repealed by a statewide referendum in 1936.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress and thus resumed the practice of law and again served as supervisor of inheritance tax for Essex County, 1937-1956.

Proprietorships should get the tax advantages now accruing to corporations, e.g. the chance to accumulate capital so vital for growth.

In those years of lower property valuations and lower tax rates, that payment represented ownership of much property.

The corporation voted on September 27, 1598, that Quiney should ride to London about the suit to Sir John Fortescue, chancellor of the Exchequer, for discharging of the tax and subsidy.

DeKalb's budget for 1961 is a record one and carries with it the promise of no tax increase to make it balance.

Prosperity for the whole nation is certainly preferred to a tax cut.

He loses now-misplaced tax collection duties, which go to the Finance Department.

Bostitch, Inc. is approximately half way through a 10-year exemption of their real estate tax.

The wisdom of granting such tax exemptions is another matter, but this particular instance is, in my opinion, completely satisfactory.

The 1960 tax book for East Greenwich indicates a valuation for this property in excess of two million dollars.

With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.

In order to attract additional industry that is compatible with this community it is all the more important to present to the industrial prospect an orderly balance in the tax structure.

As this tax base grows so then can your medium and low density residential areas grow.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

The public should understand that whether they support a state hospital or a VA hospital, the tax dollar has to be paid one way or the other.

The responsibility is still going to be there whether they pay for a VA hospital or the tax dollar is spent for the state hospital.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

The editorial concerned legislative proposals to ease the tax burden on DuPont stockholders, in connection with the United States Supreme Court ruling that DuPont must divest itself of its extensive General Motors stock holdings.

These proposals would reduce the amount of tax that DuPont stockholders might have to pay -- from an estimated 1.1 billion dollars under present law to as little as 192 million dollars.

In order to attract new industries, 15 states or more are issuing tax free bonds to build government owned plants which are leased to private enterprise.

Sir -- Permit me to commend your editorial in which you stress the fact that a program of county colleges will substantially increase local tax burdens and that taxpayers have a right to a clear idea of what such a program would commit them to.

Since two of these could be trustees of the college, actually it would be necessary to have the consent of only one elected official to impose a levy of millions of dollars of tax revenue.