What Will Be Taxed

The government imposed a new tax on farmers.

He was making, on average a week, tax free of course.

Tom is here to help Mary figure out her income taxes.

All economic problems would be solved, if they made complacency taxable.

In these cases, government will have to provide incentives, or regulate and tax.

How complicated would it be to shift from a payroll tax to a layoff tax?

Transport ministries should provide safe roads so that children can bike to school.

Perhaps officials noticed that virtually everything in Europe is already heavily taxed.

Repatriation of any earnings in excess of 500 million would be subject to a 5 tax.

Finance ministers could tax unhealthy food and subsidize healthy food.

And what about the second tax proposed by the IMF, on banks profits and bonuses?

Wage income is effectively taxed at a whopping rate of 50 67 .

Where and how would we tax the resources to put real weight behind egalitarian principles?

And when economists see behavior that has destructive side effects, we like to tax it. Taxation makes individuals feel in their wallets the destruction they are causing.

In a globalized world, national governments ability to tax potentially mobile factors of production is sharply circumscribed.

And when economists see behavior that has destructive side effects, we like to tax it.

He evidently does not recognize that a system that taxes speculation at a lower rate than hard work distorts the economy.

Similarly, transparency would be encouraged if only payments that are fully documented were tax deductible.

Many are worried that their asset prices will fall as a result of the new property tax initiatives.

It has been calculated that the most contaminating energy sources would have to pay a 70 tax to reflect their negative externalities.

When this is necessary, states experiencing a boom should be taxed more than states experiencing a bust.

Such transfers represent as cunning a tax on everyone else as one can imagine.

Half of tax revenue is collected with a value added tax, which is essentially a tax on consumption.

But informal output is of little use for debt service if it cannot be taxed.

By contrast, the proposal to impose losses on small Cypriot depositors had no redeeming justification whatsoever.

Tajikistan (its government) has been considering taxing the remittances that its migrant workers are sending home .

Indeed, this would create an incentive for each company to outperform the average, since above average profits would go untaxed.

There could be an international agreement that every country would impose a carbon tax at an agreed rate (reflecting the global social cost). Indeed, it makes far more sense to tax bad things, like pollution, than to tax good things like work and savings.

Indeed, it makes far more sense to tax bad things, like pollution, than to tax good things like work and savings.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source. In our example, the government would pay a subsidy of 0.10 kilowatt hour to the solar power plant to make up the difference between the consumer price of 0.06 and the production cost of 0.16.

Most observers cite the authorities concern that if any sovereign does not honor its debts, all sovereign borrowers will be penalized. But such contagion risk is trivial compared to the wildfire that could be ignited by imposing losses on small depositors.

Consider the controversy about whether graduated income taxes should be replaced by a single rate or flat tax.

A feed in tariff subsidizes the low carbon energy source rather than taxing the high carbon energy source.

To raise these extra amounts, the Obama administration could levy an excess profit tax on Wall Street to make up the budget gap.

But such contagion risk is trivial compared to the wildfire that could be ignited by imposing losses on small depositors.

But most countries have now adopted dual income taxation that treat the fruits of capital more leniently than other personal income.

( ) the buildings included in the Santa Sede agreement ( ) and the Mecenazgo Law ( ) will continue to not pay the tax.

And inflation is like default a capital levy on holders of public debt, as it reduces the real value of nominal liabilities at fixed interest rates.

Now the debate is whether to introduce a sales tax on top of the VAT or to raise the VAT rate.

The higher cost of production incurred to reduce emissions and of any emissions tax still due would, of course, be included in the price charged to consumers.

Meanwhile, Germany s insistence on imposing losses on bank creditors in Cyprus is the latest symptom of bailout fatigue in the core.

Given that fossil fuels contribute to global warming, standard economic theory suggests we should tax them according to their cumulative negative effects.

This is dwarfed by the tax that many European countries already impose, and it is much less than in the European trading system.

This 300 billion is a tax that shareholders of growing companies think is worth paying (or perhaps cannot find a way to avoid paying) for energetic corporate executives.