Notes on the Revenue Act of 1918, Volumes 1-2

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Page 94 - July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, there shall be levied, collected, and paid, for and in respect of the several bonds, debentures, or certificates of stock and of indebtedness, and other documents, instruments, matters, and things mentioned and described in Schedule A...
Page 11 - The amount received by the insured as a return of premium or premiums paid by him under life insurance, endowment, or annuity contracts, either during the term or at the maturity of the term mentioned in the contract or upon surrender of the contract; (3) The value of property acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent (but the income from such property shall be included in gross income...
Page 39 - Except in the case of taxpayers who are abroad, no such extension shall be for more than six months.
Page 116 - Act by providing for the registration and the imposition of a special tax upon all persons in the Canal Zone who produce, import, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations.
Page 65 - All persons, in whatever capacity acting, including lessees or mortgagors of real or personal property, fiduciaries, employers, and all officers and employees of the United States, having the control, receipt,. custody, disposal, or payment...
Page 129 - Columbia, shall be subject to pay annually a special excise tax with respect to the carrying on or doing business...
Page 118 - ... preparations which contain cocaine or any of its salts or alpha or beta eucaine or any of their salts or any synthetic substitute for them...
Page 67 - Fraternal beneficiary societies, orders, or associations, (A) operating under the lodge system or for the exclusive benefit of the members of a fraternity itself operating under the lodge system; and (B) providing for the payment of life, sick, accident, or other benefits to the members of such society, order, or association or their dependents...
Page 125 - The amount so added to any tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner and as...
Page 119 - Provided further, That it shall not be necessary to negative any of the aforesaid exemptions in any complaint, information, indictment, or other writ or proceeding laid or brought under this Act; and the burden of proof of any such exemption shall be upon the defendant.

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