Trade tax, a corporate tax that is the biggest source of local revenue, is rebounding with the economy.
Combined with the Gewerbesteuer, a court-protected local trade tax, this has meant that politicians are limited in their ability to respond to tax competition without losing revenue.
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The pending cap and trade tax legislation and Environmental Protection Agency global warming regulation threaten to cripple the economy with high cost and unproven energy, the specter of which is also is already killing jobs.
The basic premise of tax reform is to trade off tax rates and revenue base.
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Frankfurt has three times the population of Kiel, but 12 times the trade-tax revenue, notes Mr Albig.
It will be much harder for Democrats to find unity on other issues, like trade, tax cuts and above all, Iraq.
Mr. Rettig, in a recent paper for the trade publication Tax Notes, outlined a long list of information the IRS has been requesting.
The decision is a temporary, first step while the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, or TTB, continues to consider final rules on alcohol labels.
From Texas business circles came his unflinching support for free trade and tax-breaks, as well as his unstinting protection of the interests of oil and gas men.
Many newspapers there carried comments from the state's senior Democratic representative calling for changes in trade and tax policy to help US automakers better compete with overseas rivals.
"Of course printing money is going to support asset prices, " but "it's very dangerous" and is not a substitute for trade, tax and regulatory reforms that make America an attractive place for job creation.
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Aiden James, director of Tax Trade Advisors, a firm that markets tax avoidance schemes to clients, told the Committee that "tax law is very complex and tax planning is a grey area".
Neither will it have to offset the revenue lost from additional relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax, further estate tax cuts, trade agreements, or small business tax relief.
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Just as higher tariffs lead to less international trade, higher marginal tax rates would reduce the level of domestic trade, or GDP.
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If you make a lot of money on a trade, the IRS does not tax you on that trade alone.
But that job seems to have warped his economic view, which became one of cartels, regulation, managed trade and targeted tax cuts.
At the heart of my agenda for the summit are three issues - advancing trade, ensuring tax compliance and promoting greater transparency.
Kennedy, was pro-freedom, pro-defense, pro-trade and a tax cutter.
The other is that you are probably sitting on a potential tax trade you didn't know about: You can come out ahead by selling an appreciated bond and buying it right back.
And while Hong Kong still has the world's most liberal tax trade and foreign exchange regimes, there's a warning that its role as a middle man for foreign business with China is likely to diminish.
The shipping container has done this again over the past 50 years: there is almost no level of legal or tax trade protection that could have stopped foreign goods getting ever cheaper as the costs of hauling things from country to country fell ever lower.
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What will lead us there are directed government investments in energy innovation, in which a smart user fee on energy consumption or carbon emissions can play an important, but fundamentally different (and less central role) as envisioned by conventional cap and trade, carbon tax, and gas tax proponents.
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Probably not all of the 95% trade imbalance is legal corporate tax evasion, but certainly some portion of that intra-firm trade is.
Richard Murphy is a U.K. chartered accountant, former serial entrepreneur and currently director of Tax Research U.K. He has been a visiting fellow at several U.K. universities and now works mainly on tax and economic policy issues for a wide range of organizations including the U.K. Trade Union Congress and the Tax Justice Network.
Richard Murphy is a U.K. chartered accountant, former serial entrepreneur and is currently director of Tax Research U.K. He has been a visiting fellow at several U.K. universities and now works mainly on tax and economic policy issues for a wide range of organizations including the U.K. Trade Union Congress and the Tax Justice Network.
Richard Murphy FCA FRSA is a U.K. chartered accountant, former serial entrepreneur and is currently director of Tax Research U.K. He has been a visiting fellow at several U.K. universities and now works mainly on tax and economic policy issues for a wide range of organizations including the U.K. Trade Union Congress and the Tax Justice Network.
That designation is issued by the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
The nations would be well advised to regulate and tax all trade in deeded cultural property.
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The left likes his Iraq withdrawal position, and centrists like his tax and trade policies.
According to data from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, cigarette shipments declined 4.5% in 2010.
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