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Show EXCESS PROFITS TAXOPPOSED was 1 1 1 IT' ' N . 1 e 1. c Chamboril of commerce, in a referendum, voted 1.71s, to 44 In favor of repeOI Of the . -t. s proitl.s lax, llle I lllteil Ktutes Chamber of COmtnerci announced todav to-dav . COUpled With the excess profits ; 1 ' peni vote went nn emphatic negative on a Suggestion that their logsei duo 'lo the reienl le made ii(i mainly from fthfl taxes on InCOmeS" the Vote being 571 in favor an I 1,004 against. 1 A two-thirds majority is required to jcarry a refen ridum proposition. Tujt proposals alao were submitted. MenioSr chambers carried a proposal for excise taXOf on articles of.USO, but not necesiiarlCS. also propov:i f,,r ie-Centrallsatlon ie-Centrallsatlon of Income tax, lor raxa-jlion raxa-jlion of Income from new issues of se-, se-, ',1 it ics, that incomes of Americans ie- I rived atnoad and not remitted ) tho' lUnled States be cxemptoii. that profitsi on capital assets Wiles be allocated ror' taxation over the period, in which lined. ,md taxed oil lateM for sever-, al veitr.s in llle Itriod. that exchange of like property be viewed as replacement, replace-ment, thai net and inventory loose In any tax vear should cause 1 t-dotermin . i atlon of income tuxes for the preceding year and lhat government ascertain-' ment of any Income tax should precede I j payment, Two variations of sales tajaes pro-' poaals were voted down |