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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF35-006
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning testimony before the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) of Congress. Most records pertain to requests for copies of Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) statements before the JEC, administrative preparations for publishing the text of hearings, and CEA reactions to the testimony of others. Items in the file include a speech by James W. Knowles titled "The Crucial Years"; a memorandum from the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization, Automation, and Energy Resources titled "Policy Aspects of Fluctuations in Business Inventories During the Post-War Period"; testimony by Ben William Lewis; a statement on taxation of foreign earnings; and data on manufacturers' shipments of mobile homes (1952-1960).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-008
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 4363, to amend Public Law 86-272 relating to state taxation of interstate commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-023
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 10043, to amend Public Law 86-272 to state that the Congressional committees should report on their studies by July 1, 1963. Public Law 86-272, known as the Interstate Income Act of 1959, related to the power of the States to impose net income taxes on income derived from interstate commerce.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-047
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 7446, to provide a one-year extension of the existing corporate normal tax rate and of certain excise tax rates.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF87-006
This folder contains typed questions and answers and talking points about various topics related to the tax program of the Kennedy administration, such as tax cuts, business profits, steel, budget deficits, inflation, and the federal debt.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF87-005
This folder contains material pertaining to tax reform, tax cuts, and the tax program of the Kennedy administration. Only a small portion appears to relate to the articles and memoranda by Joseph A. Pechman on the status of tax reform and the distributional effects of tax reduction. Other items include an essay by Frazar B. Wilde titled "Some Comments on the History and Position of the Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963"; a booklet by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, "Tax Cut: Price of Prosperity?"; a position paper on tax policy by The Business Council's Committee on Taxation; and fact sheets on the President's tax proposals by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF86-008
This folder contains material pertaining to a study to assess how the tax cuts enacted in the Revenue Act of 1964 had affected businesses and consumers. Types of material include correspondence, memoranda, news articles, papers, and data tables. Also present is economic data from the first round of the study in June 1964, which was gathered by the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan.