Second Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1947: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3791, an Act Making Appropriations to Supply Urgent Deficiencies in Certain Appropriations for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1947, and for Other Purposes. June 19, 1947 |
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... matters . It would narrow the range of skills available for handling matters relating to complex tax problems . Yet the needs for services of the Division of Tax Research will be at least as great in 1949 as they are this year , and as ...
... matters . It would narrow the range of skills available for handling matters relating to complex tax problems . Yet the needs for services of the Division of Tax Research will be at least as great in 1949 as they are this year , and as ...
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... matters by the con- gressional tax committees . The first installment of specific suggestions on such matters was submitted to the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means on February 26 , 1948. As indicated in the covering letter ...
... matters by the con- gressional tax committees . The first installment of specific suggestions on such matters was submitted to the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means on February 26 , 1948. As indicated in the covering letter ...
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... matter of taxation . EFFECT OF REDUCTION If you reduce this little Division down to $ 110,000 , I say to you as a matter of deliberate judgment and conviction , there is no opportunity that it will be able to carry on to any extent the ...
... matter of taxation . EFFECT OF REDUCTION If you reduce this little Division down to $ 110,000 , I say to you as a matter of deliberate judgment and conviction , there is no opportunity that it will be able to carry on to any extent the ...
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... matter of record and without reflection on the men who made the investigation that there was supposed to be a business - management study of an important bureau of Government that was made by a former police officer ; and no matter how ...
... matter of record and without reflection on the men who made the investigation that there was supposed to be a business - management study of an important bureau of Government that was made by a former police officer ; and no matter how ...
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... matter of examining the returns , but it is a matter of investigating . I do not think that we ought to sit down and wait until the fellow sends us a tax return to go to a com- munity and see who is building fine houses , throwing money ...
... matter of examining the returns , but it is a matter of investigating . I do not think that we ought to sit down and wait until the fellow sends us a tax return to go to a com- munity and see who is building fine houses , throwing money ...
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Page 128 - ... (b) Consolidate the functions vested in any executive agency; or (c) Abolish the whole or any part of any executive agency and/or the functions thereof; and (d) Designate and fix the name and functions of any consolidated activity or executive agency and the title, powers, and duties of its executive head; except that the President shall not have authority under this title to abolish or transfer an executive department and/or all the functions thereof.
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