• The United States Second Revenue Act of 1940 created a corporate excess profits tax (top rate 50%) and increased corporate tax rates (top rate from 33%...
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    often listed: The Revenue Act 1767 passed on 29 June 1767. The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 passed on 29 June 1767. The Indemnity Act 1767 passed on...
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  • 54 Stat. 885 October 8, 1940: Second Revenue Act of 1940, Pub. L. 76–801, 54 Stat. 974 October 9, 1940: Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, Pub. L. 76–811, 54 Stat...
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  • Revenue Act of 1937 Internal Revenue Code of 1939 Revenue Act of 1940 Second Revenue Act of 1940 Revenue Act of 1941 Revenue Act of 1942 Revenue Act of 1943...
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    New Deal (redirect from Lanham Act of 1940)
    the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act and the Revenue Act of 1932. Roosevelt entered office with enormous political capital. Americans of all political persuasions...
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    The Cullen–Harrison Act, named for its sponsors, Senator Pat Harrison and Representative Thomas H. Cullen, enacted by the United States Congress on March...
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  • resulting Revenue Act of 1932 the top marginal tax rate was raised from 25% to 63%. The top marginal rate was again raised in 1936 and 1940. In 1941,...
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    The first revenue stamps in the United States were used briefly during colonial times, among the most notable usage involved the Stamp Act. Long after...
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    17, 1930. The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. The tariffs under the act, excluding duty-free imports, were the second highest in United...
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    implementation of a tax on intercorporate dividends. In response, Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1935, which raised relatively little revenue but did increase...
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    income tax of 100% on income over $25,000, which Congress rescinded. The Revenue Act of 1942 instituted top tax rates as high as 94% (after accounting for the...
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  • assassinated 1935 – Congress of Industrial Organizations formed 1935 – Alcoholics Anonymous founded 1935 – Revenue Act of 1935 1935 - Middletown is published...
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    the reign of Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, Thiruvananthapuram Municipality was converted into Municipal Corporation on 30 October 1940. The city...
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    The Inland Revenue Repeal Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 99) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed various statutes relating to...
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    The Inland Revenue Regulation Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 21) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated acts relating to Inland...
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  • Clifton Truman Daniel (category Place of birth missing (living people))
    has acted the role of his grandfather in performances of the 1975 play Give 'em Hell, Harry!. Daniel attended Milton Academy and the University of North...
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    the German-American Bund. An amendment on July 19, 1940, extended the Act to certain employees of state and local governments whose positions are primarily...
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  • State of Georgia, introduced the "Citizenship Reform Act of 2005" (H.R. 698) in the 109th Congress, the "Birthright Citizenship Act of 2007" (H.R. 1940) in...
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  • qualification to vote. Revenue from poll taxes acted as a major source of funding for state governments. To increase this revenue, poll taxes were also...
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    medal specified "No more than one Medal of Freedom shall be awarded to any one person, but for a subsequent act or service justifying such an award a suitable...
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    yet the act's enforcement by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue frequently prosecuted such patients. Enforcement began in 1915. The act appears to...
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  • provisions in the Consumer Leasing Act and the Home Ownership Equity Protection Act. The Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 was passed to provide legal protection...
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  • President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1862, which established a temporary income tax. The Revenue Act included a deduction for state and local...
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    The Post Office (Revenues) Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 11) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which established post offices in the colonies and allotted...
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  • revenue, or to reduce an undesirable activity (sin tax). Although a tariff can simultaneously protect domestic industry and earn government revenue,...
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    of 1939, the tax was removed from the Social Security Act, placed in the Internal Revenue Code, and renamed the Federal Insurance Contributions Act....
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    militia – renamed on 23 July the Home Guard. 22 May 1940 The Emergency Powers (Defence) Act 1940 is passed, granting the government even more authority...
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    Monterrey. These northern states granted them the considerable revenue coming into the Pacific ports of Manzanillo, Mazatlán, and Guaymas. Arms also flowed in...
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    specific exclusion of Japanese immigrants. Just before the Republican Convention began, Coolidge signed into law the Revenue Act of 1924, which reduced...
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    Wilson Square (category Monuments and memorials to presidents of the United States in Poland)
    square's southeast, was developed between 1925 and 1932. In May 1940, during the Second World War, Nazi Germany occupied the city, during which the square...
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