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Topic: War Revenue Act of 1917

	American Republics Private Landowners Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Section 28 of that act provided that all produce or income of the estate of any person which was "consumed directly by the family" was not to be included in any calculation of income for tax purposes.
		The critical things which must be studied in the Revenue Act of 1913 is what entities did it assess taxes upon?, and what provisions were made for exclusion or exemption of household necessities of life from taxation?; as was contained in section 28 of the Wilson Tariff Act of 1894.
		In enacting the Revenue Act of 1938, ch.
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		At the time of these enactments, the revenue laws contained no expres limitations on lobbying by exempt organizations, and as we have pointed out (page 15, supra), no such limitations were imposed until the Revenue Act of 1934.
		Of the purposes it defines "educational" comes the closest, and when people organize to secure the more general acceptance of beliefs which they think beneficial to the community at large, it is common enough to say that the public must be "educated" to their views.
		As reflected in the debate, the focus of the 1934 Act was on the provision (Section 23(o)(2)) that governed the deductibility for income tax purposes of contributions to organizations classified as charitable that engaged in influencing legislation.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1982/sg820087.txt (12482 words)

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		Section 4371 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. 4371, imposes a tax of four cents per dollar on casualty insurance premiums paid to a foreign in- surer for the risks of a domestic insured that are "wholly or partly within the United States" (26 U.S.C. 4372(d)(1)).
		On audit, the Internal Revenue Service determined that the premiums paid to foreign insurers were subject to the tax imposed by Section 4371 and that, pursuant to Section 4374, IBM was liable for the tax as a named beneficiary of the insurance policies.
		The Internal Revenue Service audited IBM's federal excise tax returns for 1975 through 1984 and determined that, as a beneficiary, IBM was subject to a four percent excise tax on the premiums paid to foreign insurers.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1995/w95591w.txt (16302 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography We-Wy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		After the war White returned to Australia with the rank of major-general and was chief of general staff until 1922.
		In June 1917 he attempted to form a national ministry, but disagreeing as to methods withdrew from the meetings, and when the Lefroy ministry was formed sat as a private member until the general election in October 1917, when he lost his seat by four votes.
		During the South African war he incurred some unpopularity by advocating peace measures, but he was not a pacifist if he thought a cause a just one--only his age prevented him from enlisting during the 1914-18 war.
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	Drug History
		Even on the battlefield he was fond of surprising men in the act of smoking, when he would punish them by beheading, hanging, quartering or crushing their hands and feed.
		1690 The "Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn" is enacted in England.
		1917 The American Medical Association passes a resolution declaring that "sexual continence is compatible with health and is the best prevention of venereal infections," and one of the methods for controlling syphilis is by controlling alcohol.
	www.drug-rehabs.org /drughistory.php (7594 words)

	H&R Block - Tax Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although the war ended in 1865, the income tax was not repealed until 1872.
		With the onset of World War I, the federal budget for 1917 nearly equaled the total budget for all the years from 1791 through 1916.
		The Internal Revenue Code was recodified in 1954 and 1986.Beginning in 1981, the changes in the tax law were numerous, with revisions to the laws being passed nearly every year.
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	us-events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		War Revenue Act imposes excises on luxuries and first federal inheritance tax, and authorizes sale of $200,000,000 in bonds at 3 percent.
		Revenue Act adds 10 percent surcharge to personal and corporate income taxes to raise $10.5 billion.
		Revenue Act authorizes sharing $30.2 billion of federal tax revenues with state and local governments over a five-year period.
	www.duke.edu /~charvey/Country_risk/chronology/us-events.htm (5963 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		Under 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, petitioners each sought to deduct such payments on their federal income tax returns as a "charitable contribution," which is defined as a "contribution or gift" to eligible donees.
		Referring to the revenue ruling on pew rents, the brochure states that "fixed payments for similar religious services" are fully deductible.
		The Court today acquiesces in the decision of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to manufacture a singular exception to its 70-year practice of allowing fixed payments indistinguishable from those made by petitioners to be deducted as charitable contributions.
	laws.findlaw.com /us/490/680.html (10045 words)

	The Economics of World War I
		After surveying the U.S. mobilization and financing for the war, Rockoff concludes that perhaps the greatest impact of World War I was a shift in the landscape of ideas about economics and about the proper role of government in economic activities.
		He breaks down the financing of the U.S. war effort as follows: 22 percent in taxes, 58 percent through borrowings from the public, and 20 percent in money creation.
		The War Revenue Act of 1917 taxed "excess profits" -- profits exceeding an amount determined by the rate of return on capital in a base period -- by some 20 to 60 percent, and the tax rate on income starting at $50,000 rose from 1.5 percent in 1913-15 to more than 18 percent in 1918.
	www.nber.org /digest/jan05/w10580.html (807 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		The Solicitor of Internal Revenue looked to the common law of charitable trusts in construing that provision, and noted that "generally bequests for the benefit and advantage of the general public are valid as charities." Sol.
		This Court often has expressed concern that the scope of an agency's authorization be limited to those areas in which the agency fairly may be said to have expertise, 5 and this concern applies with special force when the asserted administrative power is one to determine the scope of public policy.
		The exemption remained unchanged in the Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, 1928, and 1932.
	laws.findlaw.com /us/461/574.html (13760 words)

	Quia - World War I Vocabulary
		US president during World War 1; author of the "14 Points"; originated the concept of The League Of Nations
		law passed in june 1917 setting fines and prison terms for anyone who helped the enemy, got in the way of recruiting, or caused others to refuse military service; also allowed confiscation of any mail that criticized the war effort.
		major Allied victory by AEF that was the turning point in the war for the Allies.
	www.quia.com /jg/41597list.html (551 words)

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		I. Reconstruction A.Effects of the Civil War 1.
		South blames war for troubles but its refuse to modernize a.
		Pollution Act of 1924, 1st of kind (to clean coast) d.
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	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		In Revenue Ruling 71-447, the IRS formalized the policy, first announced in 1970, that 170 and 501(c)(3) embrace the common-law "charity" concept.
		Sagrada Orden, 263 U.S. In enacting the Revenue Act of 1938, ch.
		The 1909 Act provided an exemption for "any corporation or association organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes, no part of the net income of which inures to the benefit of any private stockholder or individual." Ch.
	caselaw.findlaw.com /cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574 (13760 words)

	Past Due Taxes - Interest Paid To The Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prior to the addition ofS 163(h)(2)(A) to the tax code in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, they explain, there was a consistent body of case law holding that interest on business-related personal income tax deficiencies was deductible, provided that the deficiencies constituted an ordinary and necessary expense in the conduct of the business.
		That Act replaced the words, "incurred or continued in connection with the conduct of a trade or business, " with the "properly allocable" language that is now before us.
		The language of the Internal Revenue Code regulations should be changed to provide that interest expense on tax deficiencies associated with a trade or business be deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense.
	www.pro1040.com /Recent%20Documents%2002/tpadvocacy_pastdue_taxes_int.htm (16134 words)

	Prohibition
		Income tax revenues accelerated most dramatically in 1918 (in terms of dollars raised), but the income tax had already demonstrated its prodigious revenue by 1917.
		In 1917 the income tax's revenue potential was re-evaluated, its capabilities proved the liquor tax trivial, and Prohibition was enacted shortly thereafter.
		Tax revenue considerations and the country's ideological views must have been on the minds of politicians collecting paychecks and votes during the Jazz and Depression ages.
	www.estrus.com /bands/quadrajets/cheetah/prohib.html (6181 words)

	WWI Aviation Pictorial History An Illustrated History of World War 1 Aviation. Timeline 1917
		US Naval Act carried appropriation of $1 million for purchase of basic aeronautical patents by the Federal Government.
		German submarine campaign exacts heaviest damage of war: 881,027 gross tons, 500,000 of which are British
		Allies' Supreme War Council, representing the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy, holds first meeting at Versailles.
	www.wwiaviation.com /time_1917.html (1184 words)

	la scientologie n'est pas vraiment exemptée d'impôts aux USA
		In the absence of those facts, this Court cannot appraise accurately whether IRS revenue rulings allowing deductions for particular religious payments correctly applied a quid pro quo analysis to the practices in question and cannot discern whether those rulings contain any unifying [490 U.S. 680, 683] principle that would embrace auditing and training session payments.
		Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (Code), 26 U.S.C. permits a taxpayer to deduct from gross income the amount of a "charitable contribution." The Code defines that term as a "contribution or gift" to certain eligible donees, including entities organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes.
		Secretary of Labor, 471 U.S. (stating that nonentanglement principle "does not exempt religious organizations from such secular governmental activity as fire inspections and building and zoning regulations" or the recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act) (citation omitted).
	www.antisectes.net /irs.htm (10231 words)

	Timeline 1862-1863
		Popular during the Crimean War, the floating battery was revived by hard-pressed Confederates.
		A man with little military training or experience--and a pronounced dislike of horses--would soon prove to be one of the most skilled cavalry leaders of the war.
		The Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania ended after three days in a major victory for the North as Confederate troops retreated.
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	Digital History
		A Chronology of World War I: August, 1914
		3 National Defense Act authorizes five-year expansion of US Army, but at the same time drastically limits size and authority of US War Department General Staff
		16 Sedition Act; amendment to Espionage Act of 1917
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/ww1_chron.cfm (699 words)

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		Acting is Believing (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Theatre)
		Acts and the Isaianic New Exodus (Biblical Studies Library)
		War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust : A Concise History of the Holocaust (Critical Issues in History)
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