A carbon tax is a tax imposed on the carbon content of fuels. It is a form of carbon pricing. Carbon taxes are a possible cost-effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. From an economic outlook‚ carbon taxes are a type of Pigovian tax.They help to address the problem of emitters of greenhouse gases not face the full social costs of their actions. Carbon taxes can be a degenerating tax‚ in that it may directly or indirectly affect low-income groups disproportionately. The regressive impact
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Service Tax Service Tax is a form of indirect tax imposed on specified services called "taxable services". Service tax cannot be levied on any service which is not included in the list of taxable services. Over the past few years‚ service tax been expanded to cover new services. The objective behind levying service tax is to reduce the degree of intensity of taxation on manufacturing and trade without forcing the government to compromise on the revenue needs. The intention of the government
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The goal of report is going to analysis the facts and use appropriate information to conclude whether there has been a tax avoidance arrangement‚ and also to outline the effect on a taxpayer if the tax avoidance arrangement exists. In order to meet the goal‚ this report followed steps from Draft Interpretations Statement to prove my opinions. Law: BG 1‚ YA 1‚ GA 1 of Income tax 2007‚ Penny and Hooper v Commissioner of Inland Revenue (2011) 3 NZTR 21-014. Ben Nevis Forestry Ventures Ltd & Ors
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Edinburgh Napier University/SCOPE of City U Hong Kong Taxation LECTURE 1: Salaries tax and salaries tax planning‚ Double taxation arrangement with Mainland China Outline |Salaries tax | |- |Scope of charge‚ format and presentation of salaries tax | |- |Locality of employment
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Tax case: Taxes and Growth 3‚ The average growth rate of U.S. economy over time is 3.4% The trend is slightly downward. 7‚ the correlation of political party of the president and GDP growth is -0.277811979‚ which indicates a strong relation. The correlation of Top individual marginal tax rate and GDP growth is 0.218935712‚ which indicates a strong relation as well. 8‚ what I am surprised is that the top individual marginal tax rate does have a strong relation with GDP growth. Before
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Tax Return Position Terrence Bellamy ACC/455 – Corporate Taxation April 15‚ 2013 John Nadalet Tax Return Position What position should you take on tax return? Decision-making is loosely defined as the cognitive process or reaching or making a certain choice based on physical‚ mental‚ and emotional reasoning. (“Define Decision Making”‚ 2013.) I have found myself making several decision on tax returns every year‚ some small‚ and others large and life altering. People can found themselves seriously
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Growth This paper investigates the design of tax structures to promote economic growth. It suggests a “tax and growth” ranking of taxes‚ confirming results from earlier literature but providing a more detailed disaggregation of taxes. Corporate taxes are found to be most harmful for growth‚ followed by personal income taxes‚ and then consumption taxes. Recurrent taxes on immovable property appear to have the least impact. A revenue neutral growth-oriented tax reform would‚ therefore‚ be to shift part
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3 DEALERS UNDER MVAT‚ 2002 6 4 INCIDENCE AND LEVY OF TAX 10 5 REGISTRATION 12 6 RATE FOR TAX APPLICABLE TO DEALERS 16 7 FILING OF RETURNS AND PAYMENT OF TAXES 17 8 RETURN FORMS AND PAYMENT OF TAX 19 9 REVISED RETURNS 20 10 TAX INVOICE 26 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY 28 INTRODUCTION ON MVAT This Act may be called the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act‚ 2002. Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy and Amendment) Act‚ 2005. The system of Value Added Tax (VAT) has been implemented‚ in the State of Maharashtra
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by the amount of the tax. There are two types of indirect taxes: 1) a specific tax : this is a fixed amount of tax per unit imposed upon a product and 2) an ad valorem tax: this is where the tax is a percentage of the selling price. When an indirect tax is imposed on a product it affects both consumers and producers. Part of the tax is paid by consumers and another part is paid by producers. The tax burden is shared between the two. The burden of a tax is referred to as tax incidence. The allocation
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Higher sin taxes take effect today By Jess Diaz (The Philippine Star) | Updated January 1‚ 2013 - 12:00am MANILA‚ Philippines - The New Year ushers in higher taxes on cigarettes‚ beer‚ liquor‚ wine‚ and other tobacco and alcohol products. When he signed Republic Act No. 10351 on Dec. 20‚ President Aquino said‚ “Today‚ we are again making history: for the past 15 years‚ we have been trying to reform the tax structure of imposing excise tax on tobacco and alcohol products. After 15 long years‚ we
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