The rise in oil and commodity prices has pushed up inflation in rich countries and acted like a tax on consumers.

原油和商品价格的上涨推高了富裕国家的通货膨胀，这像在向消费者征税。

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The west African nation has now developed a tax regime based around petroleum sharing contracts with 35% corporate tax and a 3%-10% royalty depending on the underlying commodity being extracted.

劳埃德的银行家说，这个非洲西部的国家已经形成了一套以石油分成合同为基础的税制，包括35%的公司税以及根据石油钻井量设定的3%-10%的的矿区使用费。

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No tax shall be levied on the incomes that the representative offices obtained from accepting the entrustment of the domestic enterprises to undertake the commodity export trade business in China.

代表机构从事接受我国境内企业委托代理我国商品出口贸易业务所取得的收入，不予征税。

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On this view higher commodity prices are merely accelerating the process by acting as a tax on Western consumers.

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Since most people have not invested in the commodities bubble, I would guess that they will feel that a commodity tax burden has been relieved and they may go on a vacation or buy something nice with the extra money.

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Mr. Arafat, his wife and a coterie of close advisors, were personally pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars each year in tax transfers and kickbacks from state-controlled monopoly import contracts on virtually every basic commodity needed in Gaza and the West Bank.

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