EPT

American  

1. excess-profits tax.

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Example Sentences

Well, the next time I flopped a set – in the EPT Vilamoura – I put too few chips in.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2010

Afraid that the Administration might try hitching a makeshift EPT rider to the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Extension bill, Dan simply bottled up the reciprocal trade bill in his committee.

From Time Magazine Archive

At week's end the prospects were that the extension of EPT would be voted by the House.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when EPT was slapped on again in 1950, even the tax's Fair Deal advocates admitted that it was unsound�although its very name made it politically popular.

From Time Magazine Archive

Example: Georgia's Southwire Co., which saw an opportunity to cash in on the South's utility expansion, had the ill luck to go into business in 1950 after EPT.

From Time Magazine Archive