Talk:Pullman's Palace-Car Company v. Pennsylvania

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Edition: Pullman's Palace-Car Company v. Pennsylvania, by the auditor general and approved by the treasurer of that state for the years 1870 to 1880, inclusive, on the defendant's capital stock, taking as the basis of assessment such proportion of its capital stock as the number of miles of railroad over which cars were run by the defendant in Pennsylvania bore to he whole number of miles in this and other states over which its cars were run All these taxes were levied under successive statutes of Pennsylvania, imposing taxes on capital stock of corporations incorporated by the laws of Pennsylvania or of any other state, and doing business in Pennsylvania, computed on a certain percentage of dividends made or declared The taxes for 1870-1874 were levied under the statute of May 1, 1868, No 69, § 5, which applied to corporations of every kind, with certain exceptions not material to this case; and fixed the amount of the tax at half a mill on every 1 per cent of dividend P L 1868, p 109 The taxes for 1875-1877 were levied under the statute of April 24, 1874, No 31, § 4, which applied to all corporations in any way engaged in the transportation of freight or passengers, and fixed the tax at ninetenths of a mill on every 1 per cent of dividend P L 1874, p 70 The taxes for 1878-1880 were levied under the statutes of March 20, 1877, No 5, § 3, and of June 7, 1879, No 122, § 4, applicable to all corporations, except building associations, banks, savings institutions, and foreign insurance companies, and fixing the tax at half a mill on each 1 per cent of dividend of 6 per cent or more on the par value of the capital stock, and, when the dividend was less, at three mills on a valuation of the capital stock P L 1877, p 8; P L 1879, p 114 .
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