Tax Evasion and Avoidance: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to Public Resolution No. 40, Seventy-fifth Congress, First Session, to Create a Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion and AvoidanceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 - 440 pages |
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additional tax agent in charge American amount assets Attorney Ayres Bahamas BRUTON Bureau of Internal capital CHAIRMAN Commissioner HELVERING COMMITTEE ON TAX Congress COOPER CROWTHER deduction Delaware device dividends Dwight employees EVASION AND AVOIDANCE fact filed foreign corporations FORTAS Hearst Corporation Holding Corporation income tax Income Tax Unit income-tax returns individual insurance company interest paid Internal Revenue Agent investigation Investment IREY JACKSON joint committee June June 24 Kenneth Solomon KENT LEMING liability loan loopholes losses Nassau net income payment pension trust percent personal holding companies poration preferred stock present president profit provisions question received record Revenue Act Roosevelt Secretary MAGILL section 351 Securities Corporation Senator HARRISON Senator LA FOLLETTE Senator WALSH shares statement stockholders surtax tax avoidance TAX EVASION tax saving taxable taxpayer tion TREADWAY Treasury Department VINSON yacht York City York Sun
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Page 4 - Congress, to employ such experts, and such clerical, stenographic, and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such correspondence, books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 152 - P) if such corporation, however created or organized, is formed or availed of for the purpose of preventing the imposition of the surtax upon its shareholders or the shareholders of any other corporation, through the medium of permitting earnings or profits to accumulate instead of being divided or distributed...
Page 4 - The provisions of sections 102 to 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes shall apply in case of any failure of any witness to comply with any subpena or to testify when summoned under authority of this subsection. (d) The committee is authorized to appoint and, without regard to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, fix the compensation of such experts, consultants, technicians, and organizations thereof, and clerical and stenographic assistants as it deems necessary and advisable.
Page 111 - All interest paid or accrued within the taxable year on indebtedness, except on indebtedness incurred or continued to purchase or carry obligations or securities (other than obligations of the United States issued after September 24, 1917, and originally subscribed for by the taxpayer) the interest upon which is wholly exempt from taxation under this title...
Page 334 - ... the stock owned, directly or indirectly, by or for his partner; (2) An individual shall be considered as owning the stockowned, directly or indirectly, by or for his family...
Page 153 - The family of an individual shall include only his brothers and sisters (whether by the whole or half blood), spouse, ancestors, and lineal descendants...
Page 152 - ... (18) Religious or apostolic associations or corporations, if such associations or corporations have a common treasury or community treasury, even if such associations or corporations engage in business for the common benefit of the members, but only if the members thereof include (at the time of filing their returns) in their gross income their entire pro rata shares, whether distributed or not, of the net income of the association or corporation for such year. Any amount so included in the gross...
Page 153 - Stock owned, directly or Indirectly, by or for a corporation, partnership, estate, or trust, shall be considered as being owned proportionately by or for Its shareholders, partners, or beneficiaries...
Page 154 - ... personal holding company income; and (2) STOCK OWNERSHIP REQUIREMENT. — At any time during the last half of the taxable year more than 50 per centum in value of its outstanding stock is owned, directly or indirectly, by or for not more than five individuals. (b) EXCEPTIONS. — The term "personal holding company...
Page 407 - ... or more) in respect to every issued share without par value, plus such amounts as, from time to time, by resolution of the board of directors, may be transferred thereto;