Deficit Reduction Proposals: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, December 12, 13, 14, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984 - 801 pages |
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Page 732 - ... at least 80 percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock entitled to vote, and at least 80 percent of the total number of shares of all other classes of stock (except nonvoting stock which is limited and preferred as to dividends...
Page 319 - Committee therefore recommends the following: 1. Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the General Accounting Office (GAO) should agree on the definitions for all credit terminology. Currently, major differences exist in the interpretation of these terms. A unified effort would produce the reliable data necessary to assess and establish responsible levels of federal credit activity.
Page 732 - Section 351 (a) provides, in general, for the nonrecognition of gain or loss upon the transfer by one or more persons of property to a corporation solely in exchange for stock or securities in such corporation...
Page 484 - Statement by William R. Button, Executive Director National Council of Senior Citizens 925 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20005 before the US Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources June 21, 1984 Mr.
Page 322 - Acts; and (C) to make payments (including loans and grants), the budget authority for which is not provided for in advance by appropriation Acts, to any person or government if, under the provisions of the law containing such authority, the United States is obligated to make such payments to persons or governments who meet the requirements established by such law.
Page 142 - The views expressed in this testimony are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the US Government.
Page 733 - Section 112(b) (5) to save the taxpayer from an immediate recognition of a gain, or to intermit the claim of a loss, in certain transactions where gain or loss may have accrued in a constitutional sense, but where in a popular and economic sense there has been a mere change in the form of ownership and the taxpayer has not really "cashed in" on the theoretical gain, or closed out a losing venture.
Page 737 - ACRS, 15 years); (2) amortization of certified pollution control facilities (the excess of 60-month amortization over depreciation otherwise allowable); (3) in the case of certain financial institutions, the excess of the bad debt deductions over the amount of...
Page 322 - Such term does not include authority to insure or guarantee the repayment of indebtedness incurred by another person or government.
Page 54 - Mr . Chairman/ it is an honor to be here today to present our foreign economic assistance proposals for the coming fiscal year.