Tax on Tobacco Coupons: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 60th Congress, 1st Session, on H.R. 16085. April 2 and 3, 1908

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - 47 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 148 - ... any paper, certificate, or instrument purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery...
Σελίδα 150 - The tax is uniform when it operates with the same force and effect in every place where the subject of it is found.
Σελίδα 146 - ... vellum, parchment, or paper, or any instrument or writing charged or chargeable with any of the taxes imposed by law ; or if any person shall fraudulently use, join, fix, or place, or cause to be used, joined, fixed, or placed, to, with, or upon any vellum, parchment, paper, or...
Σελίδα 146 - ... the same for sale, or give or expose the same to any person for use, or knowingly use the same, or prepare the same with intent for the further use thereof; or...
Σελίδα 152 - We think the tax is in effect a duty or excise laid upon the privilege, opportunity, or facility offered at boards of trade or exchanges for the transaction of the business mentioned in the act.
Σελίδα 146 - ... been cut, torn, or removed from any other vellum, parchment, or paper, or any instrument or writing charged or chargeable with any of the taxes imposed by law ; or if any person shall...
Σελίδα 179 - ... where it was plain to the judicial mind that the power had been called into play, not for revenue, but solely for the purpose of destroying rights which could not be rightfully destroyed consistently with the principles of freedom and justice upon which the Constitution rests, that it would be the duty of the courts to say that such an arbitrary act was not merely an abuse of a delegated power, but was the exercise of an authority not conferred.
Σελίδα 150 - State over those of another," because it does not apply to passengers arriving in this country by railroad or other inland mode of conveyance. But the law applies to all ports alike, and evidently gives no preference to one over another, but is uniform in its operation in all ports of the United States.
Σελίδα 145 - That the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall cause to be prepared for the payment of the taxes prescribed in this Act suitable stamps denoting the tax on the document, article, or thing to which...
Σελίδα 146 - ... stamps and the articles upon which they are placed and be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment and confinement to hard labor not exceeding five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.

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