Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries: Hearings Before the Special Committee on Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 303 (75th Congress) a Resolution Establishing a Special Committee on the Taxation of Governmental Securities and Salaries, Объемы 1-3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Всего страниц: 713
Considers legislation to submit state and local bonds and salaries to Federal taxation, and Government securities and salaries to state taxation.

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