Sentences with phrase «tax stamp act»

Hemp was cultivated in the U.S. by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and was a viable crop until the 1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp Act outlawed both industrial and psychoactive varieties.

Unlike the Harrison Tax Act, the Marihuana Tax Stamp Act intended to completely outlaw cannabis by requiring a stamp to posses it.

This is why the old cannabis law was called the Marihuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937.

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So they put into effect a tax on molasses, a basic colonial commodity, and passed the infamous Stamp Act, which placed a tax on all newspapers and legal documents.

Leary claimed that the tax - act required self incrimination, because in order to possess Cannabis, you had to have a stamp; but in order to get a stamp, you must possess illegal Cannabis.

In order to get my students to realize how American colonists really felt about King George's Stamp Act and the subsequent Intolerable Acts, which taxed various imported goods such as tea, I gave each student ten M&M's in a paper cup.

Also referred to as the «death tax,» the federal estate tax was first enacted in this country with the Stamp Act of 1797 to help pay for naval rearmament.

The Stamp Act of 1797 was the first federal estate tax in the United States and was passed to help fund an undeclared war with France; it was repealed in 1802.

The deduction on principal repayments inclusive of stamp duty and registration fees is Rs 1,50,000 for each joint owner, under section 80C of the Income Tax Act.

By the mid-18th century, many prominent colonists in Boston had grown weary of living under British rule, made worse by the passage of a Stamp Act which effectively taxed and censored written correspondences.

The litigation concerns claims that, in specified circumstances, the 1.5 % stamp duty and stamp duty reserve tax charges which arise on an issue or transfer of chargeable securities to clearance or depositary services (pursuant to sections 67, 70 and 93 of the Finance Act 1986) are contrary to European Union law.

«Loser pays» looks too much like that Stamp Act tax.

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