Excerpt from The Practice and Law of Excess Profits Duty The exceptionally momentous financial effect of the Excess Profits Duty renders it of vital significance that the many statutory relief provisions be observed. The Act is a war measure, and, therefore, could feasibly introduce a certain amount of inequity, but, in the passage through Parliament, extensive amendments secured the maximum of justice con sistent with sane workability. The Board of Inland Revenue and the Board of Referees are vested with wide discretionary powers, so that the possibility of the evolution of hard technical points is minimised. It should, however, be noted that claims be made for the applicable concessionary benefits, as the Revenue, if the Income Tax proce dure is followed, will not advance any point of relief. The general scheme of the Duty is that the State appropriates half of the difference between the profits of trading periods ending after the commence ment of the war, and the standard of profits applicable prior to the war. While the former is based on actual profits, the latter is calculated on the average of pre-war years, but a percentage on the capital may be substituted for such pre-war average. Provision is made for increased and decreased capital, exceptional depreciation, &c so that there is a welcome absence of a hard and fast rule which would tend to inequity. It is hoped that the work may prove of assistance to the Accountancy and other professions in the settling of liability to the Duty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.