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...
On February 8, 1887, Congress completed passage of the Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act, which codified for most American Indians the idea of dividing Indian lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal relations.Allotment was far from a new idea in 1887.he allotment process mandated by the Dawes Act differed from earlier approaches through treaties, special acts, and informal arrangements mainly in that it was compulsory at the discretion of the president. The Dawes Act also provided a general purpose process for reduction of Indian lands.