Raising Taxes on Fast Food Which sounds better‚ a $10 burger and soda‚ or a $3 grilled chicken salad and water? While convenient and cheap‚ the widespread eating of fast food has caused many health problems throughout America. By raising taxes and making fast food more expensive‚ I think Americans will begin to eat healthier‚ other restaurants will see economic success‚ and the government will spend much less on health care. When fast food prices are jacked up‚ this offers people an incentive
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Can Taxes Substitute For Zakat? In the contemporary societies today‚ many questions concerning the tax and Zakat arise. Such questions need a discussion and analysis from the opinion of scholars. The question such as must a Muslim tax payers pay Zakat in addition to the taxes paid to the government? Or can taxes substitute Zakat in the first place? In order to answer those questions‚ we must always remember that there’s an essential features of Zakat‚ without it Zakat does not exist. The
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INCOME TAXES AND DIVIDEND POLICY The income taxes of stockholders should affect the dividend policy of a firm. To help you understand these tax implications‚ we shall first examine the importance of tax deferral and then show the impact of having two different tax rates‚ one for ordinary income and one for capital gains. Rational stockholders should value a stock based on the after-tax returns they expect to receive from owning it. The tax status of the return depends on the form in which it is
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When planning your estate‚ it’s important to understand that avoiding probate does not eliminate or reduce estate taxes. Although avoiding probate may reduce or eliminate estate income taxes‚ avoiding probate doesn’t have any effect on estate taxes. In fact‚ avoiding probate and avoiding estate taxes are two unrelated concepts. The following is an overview of the two concepts: Avoiding Probate Avoiding probate is a strategy used to pass the decedent’s property directly to the beneficiaries
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couple different views on how this will affect the economy and income from taxes. I will present both arguments to you for you to decide on which way you may lean‚ although my mind is already made up on the matter. First off‚ as I have seen the two viewpoints are a liberal and a conservative viewpoint. First I will present the liberal viewpoint. As some of the liberal members of congress and the media see it‚ raising taxes will increase the amount of money that they will receive from so called wealthy
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and prevent 7 million youth from initiating smoking‚ preventing 6 million premature deaths and raising additional excise revenues of 15.1 billion taka (US$ 200 million). Further‚ taxing all bidis at a specific tax rate of 4.95 taka per pack (40% of average prices) could lead 3.4 million adult bidi smokers to quit and prevent 3.5 million youth from initiating bidi smoking‚ preventing 2.5 million premature deaths and raising additional excise revenues of 7.2 billion taka (US$ 87.5 million). One of a
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world. Some people think that paying taxes alone is enough to fulfill their obligations as social members‚ while others feel that much more should be done. Admittedly‚ taxation is a requisition of people’s earnings and provides necessary funds for a country to perform many of its functions‚ such as military defense and law enforcement. However‚ all social members will eventually benefit from this taxation in return‚ rather than simply making contributions. The taxes paid to the state are partially
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• “Sin taxes” on cigarettes and alcohol are designed to boost revenue‚ not improve public health • Minimum alcohol pricing will exacerbate poverty and entrench inequality without discouraging binge drinking • Most of the costs of drinking and smoking fall on individual consumers‚ not the public. There is no economic justification for increasing taxes on smokers and drinkers. In a report released today‚ The Wages of Sin Taxes (Download PDF) by Christopher Snowdon‚ the Adam Smith Institute condemns
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resort to this tactic to raise revenues‚ but rather could simply raise taxes. While I agree that on the surface it may actually appear that way‚ that a government can simply levy taxes upon a population and there is nothing that the said population can or will do about it. That is nice to think in an ideal sense‚ but in reality it is not so easy for a government to raise taxes. Politicians and leaders who attempt to raise taxes sometimes find out the hard way that the people do not like being excessively
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Should taxes on alcohol be raised? Consequences of alcohol tax rates on beverages consumption and alcohol-related complications have been widely studied over the past fifty years. Nowadays‚ the challenge for both economists and politicians is to estimate and form a tax level that maximizes social prosperity and most efficiently increases incomes. Alcohol taxation is an essential component of a complete alcohol control strategy. Even if any increase in alcohol tax rates will not cause a significant
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