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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-051
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on H.R. 4655, to amend title IX of the Social Security Act with respect to the amount authorized to be made available to the States out of the employment security administration account for certain administrative expenses, and to reduce the rate of the Federal unemployment tax for the calendar year 1963.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-043
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 6441, to amend Public Law 86-272 with respect to the reporting date for the results of Congressional studies on 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-MF41-042
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 6455, to amend subsection (b) of section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 dealing with unrelated business taxable income.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF41-039
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 6755, 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-MF42-034
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 8000, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to impose a tax on acquisitions of certain foreign securities in order to equalize costs of longer-term financing in the United States and in markets abroad. The concept is referred to as an interest equalization tax in the documents.
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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-MF18-001
This folder contains a transcript of a Washington Report episode concerning taxes. The program was hosted by CBS News anchor David Schoenbrun.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF17-001
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Walter W. Heller and Leon H. Keyserling, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and president of the Conference on Economic Progress. Items include Keyserling's critique of President Kennedy's economic program and tax proposals; his testimony in various Congressional hearings in 1962; and news clippings about him (dating back to 1959 and 1960).
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF16-014
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda between Walter W. Heller and Kermit Gordon, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers and later Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Enclosures include Gordon's testimony in Congressional hearings on budget and tax matters, and an article about Gordon titled "Man with a $100-billion Budget," published in Business Week.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF16-010
This folder contains correspondence between Walter W. Heller and Gaylord A. Freeman, Jr., of the First National Bank of Chicago.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF26-020
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Brookings Institution. Types of items include letters, memoranda, speeches, papers, articles, notes, and meeting minutes. The most frequent correspondents are Walter S. Salant and Robert D. Calkins. The file includes two issues of The Brookings Bulletin (vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1962; vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1962); Brookings Research Report No. 7, "Effects of Fiscal Policy in the Postwar Recessions"; several summary reports on studies undertaken by the Brookings National Committee on Government Finance; a paper by Harvey E. Brazar titled "Some Fiscal Implications of Metropolitanism"; and a paper by Alice M. Rivlin titled "Research in the Economics of Higher Education: Progress and Problems." There are also two subfolders, one for the Brookings Tax Committee and the other for a meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Studies of Government Finance, of which Heller was a member.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF15-002
This folder contains correspondence between Walter W. Heller and J. Sinclair Armstrong, Executive Vice President of the United States Trust Company of New York. Items include a brochure titled "Statement on the Tax Recommendations of the President" by Hoyt Ammidon, and two papers of comments on the economic position by Frederick N. Goodrich.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF31-007
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning corporate depreciation allowances in 1962. Types of items include press releases, charts, and memoranda.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-035
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Commission on Money and Credit. In addition to administrative correspondence, there is one memorandum of notes on the report of the Commission, and another containing an analysis of the Commission's proposals.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF28-026
This folder contains material compiled by Walter W. Heller concerning the Citizens Committee for Tax Reduction and Revision in 1963, which was organized with support from the Kennedy administration in order to advocate for revised federal tax laws and reduced income taxes. Types of items include correspondence, news bulletins, press releases, meeting minutes, memoranda, and notes. Most content relates to the initial creation of the organization.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-014
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a draft bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow a credit against tax for certain investment in less developed countries.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF40-011
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on a draft bill by the Federal Communications Commission to provide until June 30, 1966, for a temporary tax of 5 percent, in lieu of 10 percent, upon the sale of all-channel television receiving sets.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF10-007
This folder contains miscellaneous correspondence and enclosures sent to the Council of Economic Advisers by individuals whose last names begin with the letters W, X, Y, and Z. The material is filed roughly in reverse chronological order according to the date of the carbon copy reply. Items include two speeches by Walter W. Heller titled "The Tax Program and Business Investment" (18 February 1963) and "Taxes, Investment, and the Economy" (8 March 1963); a memorandum by Charles A. Weil in opposition to the President's tax message; a memorandum on the civil service in France by Michael M. White; a memorandum on financing of leased equipment by W. S. Whitehead; an article by Walter W. Heller titled "Appraisal of the Administration's Tax Policy," reprinted from National Tax Journal; and another article by Heller titled "CED's Stabilizing Budget Policy After Ten Years." Note that this file contains some misfiled correspondence from 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF43-022
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 5189, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to exempt from tax income derived by a foreign central bank of issue from obligations of the United States.
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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-MF44-050
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 8824, to modify the application of the personal holding company tax in the case of consumer finance companies.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-047
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 6371, to amend Internal Revenue Code of 1954 with respect to the limitation on retirement income, and with respect to the taxable year for which the deduction for interest paid will be allowable to certain building and loan associations, mutual savings banks, and cooperative banks.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-045
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 10650, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to provide a credit for investment in certain depreciable property, to eliminate certain defects and inequities. The legislation was known as the Revenue Act of 1962.
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Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Walter W. Heller
JFKWHSFWWH-MF44-032
This folder contains material pertaining to a request for comments from the Council of Economic Advisers on enrolled bill H.R. 11879, 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-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.