• The federal telephone excise tax is a statutory federal excise tax imposed under the Internal Revenue Code in the United States under 26 U.S.C. § 4251...
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  • Excise tax in the United States is an indirect tax on listed items. Excise taxes can be and are made by federal, state, and local governments and are...
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  • in Congress on December 17, 1915. In 1878, a federal telephone excise tax was introduced as a "war tax" to help pay for the Spanish–American War, but...
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    Revenue and Expenditure Control Act of 1968 (category United States federal taxation legislation)
    Vietnam War. It also delayed a scheduled reduction in the telephone and automobile excise tax, causing them to end in 1973 instead of 1969. President Lyndon...
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  • were the state and federal excise taxes. State and federal inheritance taxes began after 1900, while the states (but not the federal government) began...
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  • controversy Emergency phone Emile Berliner Fax Federal telephone excise tax Francis Blake (telephone) Geographic number Harmonised service of social...
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    The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll,...
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    and Airway Trust Fund taxes, increasing them by 25%, and permanently extended the 3% federal telephone excise tax on telephone service. The Act gave states...
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  • things, telephones, admissions, and jewelry. Major Enacted Tax Legislation, 1950-1959, Tax Policy Center. Accessed February 4, 2024. "Excise Tax Reduction...
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  • Taxation in the United Arab Emirates (category Value added taxes)
    entitled to levy taxes on citizens and companies. The federal government currently levies a value added tax, corporate income tax, and excise taxes. Some emirates...
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    resisted. For instance, in the United States, many tax resisters resist the telephone federal excise tax. The tax was initiated to pay for the Spanish–American...
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    and the Federal Unemployment Tax Act wage base and tax rate were increased. Excise taxes on cigarettes were temporarily doubled, and excise taxes on telephone...
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  • Canada Revenue Agency (category Federal departments and agencies of Canada)
    delivers benefit programs and tax credits. Legislation administered by the CRA includes the Income Tax Act, parts of the Excise Tax Act, and parts of laws relating...
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  • Revenue Act of 1943 (category United States federal taxation legislation)
    1943 increased federal excise taxes on, among other things, alcohol, jewelry, telephones, and admissions, and raised the excess profits tax rate from 90%...
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    income averaging reduced tax benefits for property leased by tax exempt entities temporarily extended federal telephone excise tax (through 1987) increased...
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  • Herbert Kelman (category American tax resisters)
    calling on faculty members at Harvard to refuse to pay their federal telephone excise tax in protest against the U.S. war against Vietnam. Inspired by...
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  • schedule for single taxpayers delayed scheduled reduction in telephone and auto excise taxes The Act provided a government definition of "private foundation"...
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  • by this time thousands of Americans were refusing to pay the federal telephone excise tax on their phone service. In 1970, five Harvard and nine M.I.T...
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    Equalization. Sales tax is charged on gasoline. The tax is levied on both the gasoline and on the federal and state excise taxes, resulting in a form...
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    are entitled to exemption from duty and tax by virtue of any order under section 13 of the Customs and Excise Duties (General Reliefs) Act 1979) commits...
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  • Tariff (redirect from Import tax)
    A tariff is a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods. Besides being a source of revenue...
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    services; impose an excise tax on insurance plans with relatively high premiums; and make various other changes to the federal tax code, Medicare, Medicaid...
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    acts of force and fraud, and little else." A believer in a tax basis favoring the federal vs local revenue structure more in line with pre-world war II...
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  • contractors, due to federal and state requirements for employers to pay FICA (Social Security and Medicare taxes) and unemployment taxes on received income...
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  • deductible for federal estate tax purposes or gift tax purposes. Historically, cemeteries were exempt from local property taxes and excise taxes in most states...
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    Mackey; Adam Hoffer (November 2, 2023). "Excise Taxes and Fees on Wireless Services Drop Slightly in 2023". Tax Foundation. Retrieved September 8, 2024...
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    affected several federal programs, including passport renewals and immigration processing. The strike was also expected to have an impact on tax season, such...
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    War Revenue Act of 1898 (category United States federal taxation legislation)
    be issued by the Treasury was adopted, the estate tax was lowered to 0.75 percent, and an excise tax on imported tea were all adopted. The Senate began...
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    vehicle tax, such as the one that had been introduced in Victoria, as a distance-based charge to recoup lost government revenue from petrol excise. The High...
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  • MACRS (category Tax terms)
    Decoupling modification is a tax terminology resulting from the federal tax law enacted March 9, 2002, which created a new tax deduction for "bonus depreciation"...
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