Excise Taxes

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Congress, the Administration, and Taxes

Relaxation of the postwar economic boom has increased demands that Congress give business and consumers long-delayed relief from the burden of war excise taxes. Although income taxes on individuals and corporations have been cut substantially since the end of the war, there has been no corresponding action in the field of excise taxation. Canada recently repealed a number of its war excises and reduced others, but in the United States the wartime taxes and wartime rates are still in full force and effect. Many of those excises were imposed at high rates during the war for the specific purpose of discouraging civilian consumption or use of the articles and services affected. By the same token, it is now contended that ...

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