State and local government taxes also represent about 25% of consumer telecom bills, Speta says.
The assessments built into the calculator act like taxes, and they come on top of government taxes.
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Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income.
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Global automakers are redesigning SUVs for China with smaller engines in response to government taxes based on engine size.
In the end, passengers pay more in government taxes and fees than they do for baggage fees and other add-ons.
In saying that, they forget that government taxes us today in ways people never considered just a few decades ago.
Most of the states exempt all or some Social Security, whereas the federal government taxes up to 85% of these payments.
If government taxes were actually as large as Air France claims, many passengers might want to complain to responsible politicians and regulators.
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Emerging market bond investors love Brazil, even when the government taxes them.
The definition of the tax base (what government taxes and what it exempts from taxation), especially with respect to taxation of capital, also matters greatly.
Gary and Aldona Robbins, following on the work of Norman Ture, demonstrated here and here, that it is not only high tax rates (how heavily government taxes) that matter.
The more government taxes, regulates and spends to redistribute resources around and through the welfare-state daisy chain, the less society produces and the more citizens are dissatisfied with their plight in life.
Providing welfare and extended unemployment benefits to those who are harmed by government taxes and regulations will free us who rule to take the risks we believe will make this country great.
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Tobacco companies said the Australian ruling -- which would eliminate iconic branding from appearing on the package -- would raise the amount of counterfeit products on the market, eroding government taxes collected on tobacco.
We're in the same boat already with the Spaniards and the Italians and, to a much lesser degree, the Greeks -- and not because of the way the U.S. government taxes and spends, but because of the way world financial institutions borrow and lend.
One relies on low taxes and limited government interference, the other on high taxes and government redistribution of resources.
We are caught in a monumental ideological struggle over whether we want a big government that taxes everybody heavily and decides who gets what and who does what, or a smaller government that only provides a safety net for those in need and leaves citizens and businesses alone, as much as possible.
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For every dollar the government spends, a dollar has to be taken from the private sector, either in the form of taxes now, or government debt and taxes later.
So, all things considered, local government property taxes are likely to be curtailed for many years.
Of course government needs taxes to exist and oversight is needed to prevent abuse.
Mr Cardoso's government raised taxes repeatedly to achieve ever larger primary surpluses (ie, surpluses before interest payments).
Demand plunged last year after the U.K. government increased taxes on oil and gas produced from existing wells.
Republicans are hauling out the tried and true smaller government lower taxes approach.
If the US government collects taxes and uses those taxes to reduce the deficit it is entering into an interest rate swap.
That court was set up in 1855 to hear claims against the federal government over taxes, contracts and the taking of private property.
Republicans driven by their conservative base want to reduce government and taxes to fund it, arguing that is the best way to grow the economy.
Tax Freedom Day would come 27 days later, on May 14 instead of April 17, if the federal government raised taxes enough to close the budget deficit.
What all of this means is that the financial markets the dreaded Bond Vigilantes would be happy to see the federal government cut taxes in order to produce higher rates of economic growth.
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This determines who will receive your property at your death, how much of your property will go to the government in taxes, and whether your property will pass through a probate estate.
For the next 20 years, using flashy names like Fiscal Structural Reform Act, Emergency Employment Measures and Policy Measures of Economic Rebirth, the government cut taxes, increased spending and borrowed money to finance itself.
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