The Income Tax: A Study of the History, Theory and Practice of Income Taxation at Home and Abroad |
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... fixed incomes , precarious with realized in- comes , and even , to use Gladstone's celebrated phrase , " indus- trious " with " lazy " incomes . To draw a sharp line between such incomes is indeed difficult , because in incomes ...
... fixed incomes , precarious with realized in- comes , and even , to use Gladstone's celebrated phrase , " indus- trious " with " lazy " incomes . To draw a sharp line between such incomes is indeed difficult , because in incomes ...
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... fixed will , of course , vary from country to country . In places where money wages are small and where the standard of life is low , a very slight minimum will suffice . In countries where wages are large , and where the laborers are ...
... fixed will , of course , vary from country to country . In places where money wages are small and where the standard of life is low , a very slight minimum will suffice . In countries where wages are large , and where the laborers are ...
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... fixed rate . There may be progression up to a definite limit , and proportion thereafter . This is called degressive taxation . The proportional rate is here regarded as the normal one , but on all sums counted downward below this limit ...
... fixed rate . There may be progression up to a definite limit , and proportion thereafter . This is called degressive taxation . The proportional rate is here regarded as the normal one , but on all sums counted downward below this limit ...
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... fixed proportion . If we can never reach an ideal , there is no good reason , however , why we should not strive to get as close to it as possible . Equality of sacrifice , indeed , we can never attain absolutely or exactly , because of ...
... fixed proportion . If we can never reach an ideal , there is no good reason , however , why we should not strive to get as close to it as possible . Equality of sacrifice , indeed , we can never attain absolutely or exactly , because of ...
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... fixed upon as representing what a fifteenth or tenth ought to yield , and this arbitrary sum was then apportioned among the various local divisions . Finally , it will be remembered how personal prop- erty slipped out of the assessment ...
... fixed upon as representing what a fifteenth or tenth ought to yield , and this arbitrary sum was then apportioned among the various local divisions . Finally , it will be remembered how personal prop- erty slipped out of the assessment ...
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Page 545 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 542 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Page 434 - ... or from any profession, trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever...
Page 597 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy; that ; the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very means, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Page 597 - The result is a conviction that the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control, the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 599 - The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States and without regard to any census or enumeration; provided that in no case shall the maximum rate of tax exceed 25 percent.
Page 116 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man.
Page 445 - Provided, That no deduction shall be allowed for any amount paid out for new buildings, permanent improvements, or betterments, made to increase the value of any property or estate...
Page 116 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth...
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