Admissions Tax on Motion-picture Theaters: Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on H. R. 157, a Bill to Provide that the Tax on Admission Shall Not Apply to Admissions to a Moving-picture Theater. April 20, 1953, Volume 36U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 120 pages |
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20 percent admission 20-percent Federal 20-percent tax appearance April 20 BRARY cents Chairman and members close their doors Colonel COLE competition CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Congressional District costs COYNE CURTIS of Nebraska decline drive-in theater EBERHARTER effect elimination entertainment excise tax exhibitors fact Federal admissions tax Federal tax FORAND forced to close gentlemen Honorable HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES increase JERE COOPER legislation letter LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS loss MACHROWICZ Mason bill MCGEE Means Committee million motion-picture industry motion-picture theaters movie theaters moving picture moving-picture theater O. C. Fisher paid percent admission tax picture theaters present profit record relief removed repeal Representative in Congress revenue SINDLINGER situation small theaters support of H. R. tax on admissions tax on motion-picture tax on theater taxation television Thank theater admissions theater closings theater industry theater owners tickets Treasury urge W. J. Bryan Dorn Washington
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