Buckstaff Bath House Co. v. McKinley

Section 901 of the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620) levies an excise tax, equal to specified percentages of total wages paid, on “every employer” of eight or more persons with respect to their “employment.” By § 902 the taxpayer may credit against this tax the amount of contributions paid by him into an unemployment fund under a state law* such credit however not to exceed 90 percent of the tax and to be allowed only for contributions made *360under the laws of states approved and certified by the Social Security Board in accordance with the standards .prescribed in § 903. By § 907 the term…