The Sales Tax in the American States / / Carl Shoup.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Shoup, Carl,
• TeilnehmendeR: Blough, J. Roy.; Breithut, Richard.; Cox, Reavis.; Ecker-R., L. László.; Haig, Robert Murray.; Haimoff, Louis.; Hession, Charles.; Jackson, Kathleen.; Kilpatrick, Wylie.; Manning, Raymond E.; Radigan, James P.; Shere, Louis.; Spengler, Edwin H.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1934]; ©1934
• Year of Publication: 1934
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (838 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Part One: Summary of Findings --; I. The Sales Tax Movement of 1929-33 --; II. Reaction of Taxpayers to the Sales Tax --; III. Legal Problems in State Sales Taxation --; IV. Evaluation of the Sales Tax as a State Fiscal Measure --; Part Two: The Sales Tax in the Several States --; V. Representative Eastern States --; VI. Representative Southern States --; VII. Representative Mid-Western States --; Part Three: The Reaction of Taxpayers to the Sales Tax a Statistical Study --; IX. Reaction of Taxpayers in New York State --; X. Reaction of Taxpayers in Chicago, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois --; XI. Reaction of Taxpayers in Detroit and Monroe, Michigan --; Part Four: Legal Issues in State Sales Taxation --; Chapter XII: Persons' Taxable --; Chapter XIII: Measure of the Tax --; Chapter XIV: Exemptions --; Appendices --; Appendix A: Methods Used in the Study --; Appendix B: Critique of the Questionnaires --; Appendix C: The Weighting Factor in the New York Study --; Appendix D: Details of Fiscal Developments Since 1929 --; Appendix E: Samples of Questionnaires Used in Statistical Survey --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231897204; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/shou94142
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carl Shoup.

Studies how the financial distress of the depression caused many states to implement a sales tax. Also looks at how the new taxes worked and what were the new burdens, as well as the reactions of the consumers.