Excerpt from A Manual of the Direct and Excise Tax System of the United States: Including the Forms and Regulations Established by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Decisions and Rulings of the Commissioner, Together With Extracts From the Correspondence of the Office Many of the decisions which have been made from time to time have been printed by the office, in the newspapers, and by various persons who have pre pared works upon the excise system but these decisions have never been revised, and several of them are changed by the act of the third of March instant. There are also in the office many letters that were prepared by the Commissioner, relating to the application of the law to the pursuits and business of the people. It would be agreeable to me to prepare a hand-book, which shall contain the law, including sections from acts which do not relate exclusively to the internal revenue system, the decisions of the office, extracts from correspondence con cerning the assessment and collection of taxes, together with the forms and regulations which have been established. 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.