excess profits tax

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Excess profits tax

Additional federal taxes placed on the earnings of a business, used only in time of national emergency such as war.

excess profits tax

A temporary tax levied on business profits during a period of national emergency. For example, the federal government may levy an additional corporate income tax during wartime to generate extra government revenues.

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An Excess Profits Tax was levied on companies benefiting from war production'.

A short history of taxation beards, boots, beehives ... candles, ... by New Internationalist

Hicks uses the term "war profits" to describe a carefully targeted windfall profits tax (WPT), in contrast with a general tax on "high" profits whether or not they arise due to wartime spending--an excess profits tax (EPT).

Windfalls by Kades, Erick / Yale Law Journal

person who pays income, war profits, or excess profits tax to a foreign country may credit the amount of such taxes against her U.

Learning to live with the new foreign nongrantor trust rules by McCaffrey, Carlyn S.; Kirschner, Elyse G. / Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

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