How to Submit A Question to the AMT Advisor. AMT Preferences. In General. In calculating alternative minimum taxable income (AMTI), in addition to adding back or subtracting AMT adjustment items (Code Sec. 56), under Code Sec. 57, taxpayers must add back certain AMT preference items. The AMT preference items are: Depletion; Excess Intangible drilling costs; Interest on private activity bonds
The Dawes Act was designed as an attempt to assimilate American Indians into the culture at large. At the same time it gave the government power over Indian tribal lands, dividing them individually...
The allotment policy depleted the land base, ending hunting as a means of subsistence. Women now had to be officially married to own land. The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.