Revenue Revision: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1927 |
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80 per cent allowed amendment amount assessment Association BACHARACH basis believe beneficiaries BLODGETT Board of Tax Bureau capital gain CHAIRMAN CHINDBLOM claim Class I railroads collected commissioner committee Congress corporation income corporation tax cost debt decision depreciation earned estimate exemption expenses fact favor February 26 Federal estate tax Federal Government Federal tax filed fiscal Florida GARNER gentlemen Governor HAWLEY HULL income-tax individual inheritance tax installment interest Internal Revenue legislature levy MACCHESNEY matter MCLAUGHLIN ment MILLS National net income nonresident aliens organization payment present profit provision purpose question RAINEY real estate recommend reduction reference refund regulations remainderman repeal represent resolution revenue act SATTERWHITE Secretary Senate statement statute of limitations stockholders submitted suggested surtax Tax Appeals taxable taxation taxpayer Territory of Hawaii tion TREADWAY Treasury Department trust United
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Page 681 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States and the maintenance of their governments are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the national Government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Page 263 - ... property ; also from interest, rent, dividends, securities, or the transaction of any business carried on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any source whatever.
Page 437 - fiduciary" means a guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, conservator, or any person acting in any fiduciary capacity for any person. (7) The term " withholding agent " means any person required to deduct and withhold any tax under the provisions of section 143 or 144.
Page 256 - ... traveling expenses (including the entire amount expended for meals and lodging) while away from home in the pursuit of a trade or business; and rentals or other payments required to be made as a condition to the continued use or possession, for purposes of the trade or business, of property to which the taxpayer has not taken or is not taking title or in which he has no equity.
Page 260 - BASIS. (a) DEALERS IN PERSONAL PROPERTY. — Under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary, a person who regularly sells or otherwise disposes of personal property on the installment plan may return as income therefrom in any taxable year that proportion of the installment payments actually received in that year which the gross profit realized or to be realized when payment is completed, bears to the total contract price.
Page 276 - For purposes of this section, the term "earned income" means wages, salaries, or professional fees, and other amounts received as compensation for personal services actually rendered, but does not include that part of the compensation derived by the taxpayer for personal services rendered by him to a corporation which represents a distribution of earnings or profits rather than a reasonable allowance as compensation for the personal services actually rendered. In the case of a taxpayer engaged in...
Page 466 - Board shall have jurisdiction to redetermine the correct amount of the deficiency even if the amount so redetermined is greater than the amount of the deficiency, notice of which has been mailed to the taxpayer...
Page 420 - Farmers', fruit growers', or like associations organized and operated on a cooperative basis (a) for the purpose of marketing the products of members or other producers, and turning back to them the proceeds of sales, less the necessary marketing expenses...
Page 253 - capital assets" means property held by the taxpayer (whether or not connected with his trade or business), but does not include stock in trade of the taxpayer or other property of a kind which would properly be included in the inventory of the taxpayer if on hand at the close of the taxable year, or property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his trade or business...
Page 345 - A reasonable allowance for the exhaustion, wear and tear of property used in the trade or business, including a reasonable allowance for obsolescence.