Investigation of Bureau of Internal Revenue: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, United States Senate, Sixty-eighth Congress, First[-second] Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 168, Authorizing the Appointment of a Special Committee to Investigate the Bureau of Internal Revenue ...United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Investigation of the Bureau of Internal Revenue U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 |
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... field by the collectors ' offices when they are filed . Of course , the bureau has to act through its agents , and the agents are spread all over the country , in districts . Those returns are audited there , and there is a local force ...
... field by the collectors ' offices when they are filed . Of course , the bureau has to act through its agents , and the agents are spread all over the country , in districts . Those returns are audited there , and there is a local force ...
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... field is not such a man as can , in every case , settle these very complicated and very difficult questions , particularly so when they can be very readily decided by the law itself . Senator JONES of New Mexico . Yes ; that is true ...
... field is not such a man as can , in every case , settle these very complicated and very difficult questions , particularly so when they can be very readily decided by the law itself . Senator JONES of New Mexico . Yes ; that is true ...
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... field . Go right into the bureau and see what the men are doing and what an enormous task they have to perform . We are eager to have suggestions as to improvements and methods . We had an expert from the outside come in last year and ...
... field . Go right into the bureau and see what the men are doing and what an enormous task they have to perform . We are eager to have suggestions as to improvements and methods . We had an expert from the outside come in last year and ...
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... field , having our field men examine the returns for 1920 and 1921 at one examination . That simplifies the thing for the taxpayer in the way of employing accountants , and so forth , and also saves the Bureau a great deal of money . If ...
... field , having our field men examine the returns for 1920 and 1921 at one examination . That simplifies the thing for the taxpayer in the way of employing accountants , and so forth , and also saves the Bureau a great deal of money . If ...
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... field employees , and also on the part of employees in the District ? Commissioner BLAIR . I can give you a list of the prosecutions . Now , we run up against this situation sometimes , and it is a very delicate situation to deal with ...
... field employees , and also on the part of employees in the District ? Commissioner BLAIR . I can give you a list of the prosecutions . Now , we run up against this situation sometimes , and it is a very delicate situation to deal with ...
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Page 200 - ... any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person except as provided by law...
Page 200 - It shall be unlawful for any collector, deputy collector, agent, clerk, or other officer or employee of the United States to divulge or to make known in any manner whatever not provided by law to any person the amount or source of Income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any Income return...
Page 236 - In the case of mines, oil and gas wells, other natural deposits, and timber, a reasonable allowance for depletion and for depreciation of improvements according to the peculiar conditions in each case, based upon cost, including cost of development not otherwise deducted...
Page 386 - In the case of buildings, machinery, equipment, or other facilities, constructed, erected, Installed, or acquired, on or after April 6, 1917, for the production of articles contributing to the prosecution...
Page 200 - ... the amount or source of income, profits, losses, expenditures, or any particular thereof, set forth or disclosed in any income return, or to permit any income return or copy thereof or any book containing any abstract or particulars thereof to be seen or examined by any person...
Page 236 - The depletion allowance based on discovery value provided in this paragraph shall not exceed 50 per centum of the net income of the taxpayer (computed without allowance for depletion) from the property upon which the discovery was made, except that in no case shall the depletion allowance be less than it would be if computed without reference to discovery value.
Page 236 - ... such reasonable allowance in all the above cases to be made under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary. In the case of leases the deductions allowed by this paragraph shall be equitably apportioned between the lessor and lessee...
Page 58 - No unpublished ruling or decision •will be cited or relied upon by any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service as a precedent in the disposition of other cases.
Page 57 - Revenue, which, because they announce a ruling or decision upon a novel question or upon a question in regard to which there exists no previously published ruling or decision, or for other reasons, are of such importance as to be of general interest. It is also the policy of the Bureau to publish all rulings or decisions which revoke, modify, amend, or affect in any manner whatever any published ruling or decision. In many instances...
Page 201 - SEC. 3167. It shall be unlawful for any collector, deputy collector, agent, clerk or other officer or employee of the United States to divulge or to make known in any manner whatever not provided by law to any person the operations, style of work or apparatus of any manufacturer or producer visited by him in the discharge of his official duties...