Exemptions from the payment of taxes were abolished forever.
In the early months of 1788 many pamphlets appeared, criticising the system of taxation and the unjust privileges and exemptions enjoyed by a few of the citizens to the detriment of the great mass of the nation.
These exemptions were evidently sought with a view to getting rid of the exactions of the king's officials and appropriating the various fines and fees, rather than with the purpose of usurping governmental prerogatives.
But the chief reform, and by far the most difficult one, was to force the privileged classes to surrender their important exemptions from taxation.
True reform must be truly fair, and that means raising personal exemptions to $2,000.
Exclusions and exemptions cause similar incomes to be taxed at different levels.
In so far as income-tax exemptions are concerned, it seems, to me the committee has gone as far as it is Safe to go and somewhat further than I should have gone.
He grants such licenses andexemptions from the laws as are authorized by statute.
By the constitution it is stipulated that the Executive shall "make decrees and regulations necessary for the execution of the laws, without suspending their execution, or granting exemptions from them.
The obligation as to religious exemptionshas since been limited to 50% of the admissions.
These are exemptions under the Confederate States' law in seven States, and in parts of two States.
But in addition to these there were many thousand exemptions under purely State laws.
The General Assembly shall have power to make such exemptions as may be deemed necessary, and enact laws that may be expedient for the government of the militia.
They have many privileges and exemptions now, and they have the benefit of all laws against the community.
So much for these corporationexemptions in England; and if the senator from Massachusetts finds any thing in such instances worthy of imitation, let him stand forth and proclaim it.
Standing upon the extreme boundary of human life, and disdaining all the relaxations and exemptions of age, his outer framework only was crumbling away.
After Domitian, Christians were no longer liable to the didrachma, and therefore lost their claim to the privileges and exemptions of the Jews.
In general, however, specific exemptions of private property from any taxes lead to abuse of privileges, jealousies and popular dissatisfaction, which result in danger to government and harm to the people.
Such exemptions may extend even to art collections made by private funds, and to extensive grounds laid out in parks, provided they are open to the public and serve as a means of wholesome recreation and culture.
Exemptions of property used for particular purposes, like a farmer's team, may be thought of as a bounty upon such means of production.
The military exemptions of men in European armies, the adoption of the selective draft in the United States, are acknowledgments of the equality of the military and the civilian occupations indispensable to military activity.
It is a splendid association of favored individuals, taken from the mass of society, and invested with exemptions and surrounded by immunities and privileges.
The reason for these partial exemptions apparently is that sanitary arrangements are made chiefly for the benefit of houses and buildings, while the properties just enumerated do not receive the same amount of benefit.
The State was, accordingly, forced by its exemptions and privileges granted the Church to take up a position as to heresy and schism.
The extension of these exemptions was made by the decree of 319, given below.
The following epistle, of the same year as the preceding to Cæcilianus, is the basis of exemptions of the clergy from public duties.
Exemptions are also made for family reasons and on account of peculiar occupation or profession.
This applies to the entire male population, with certain exemptions or modifications on the ground, respectively, of age or education.
Hence the influence and exemptions of the one, and the injustice experienced by and burdens of the other.
These municipal officers never received any stipend, but they were remunerated by exemptions from taxation and by privileges.
Similarly he feels resentment if exemptions from restraint are allowed some others and not allowed him also.
The French Revolution was not so much against the king as against the nobility, who with their oppressive feudal exemptions had excited the resentment of the people at large.
This feeling of resentment at inequality of restraints and burdens imposed and exemptions granted is not ignoble, is not a feeling to be suppressed or even concealed.
Hyde, at least, made no effort to curtail the exemptions made by Parliament.
It is probable that by the strict letter of the law they were liable to both, for even the Long Parliament had only granted temporary exemptions from taxation.
The favours and exemptions thus solicited were of a very mischievous character; for the political mind of Spain was not yet shrewd enough to grasp the fact that where all competition is removed, quality cannot but decline.
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