And a new tax may also be levied on petrol, with the highest octanes bearing the brunt.
The tax will be levied on all property owners with the rate determined by the size of the property and its location.
Meanwhile, VAT will now be levied on sports drinks and hairdressers' chairs.
The first penalties will be levied on individuals without insurance.
The definition of a "hot" pasty is being altered to allow the reversal, while a 20% charge due to be levied on static caravans will now drop to 5%.
Mr Lederer's comments come after calls were made for a tax to be levied on each bottle of Scotch, to give Scotland a greater share in its growing success.
Such a tax would be levied on trading in financial products such as stocks and bonds, with a view to using the additional revenue to fight UK poverty and deprivation in the developing world.
And I had a question on calibration, given that there are 8, 500 banks in the country and a large majority of them would come in for a fee that would be levied on banks.
Speaking in a Holyrood debate on oil and gas, Highland MSP Rhoda Grant said that a new tax might have to be levied on the industry leading to different levels of tax north and south of the border.
Inheritance tax, which used to be levied only on the wealthy, now hits many middle-class estates.
He wants multinationals located in the UK to feel more confident that the tax they pay here will be levied primarily on what they earn here, rather than on their overseas earnings.
An example might be a fine levied on a bank for overcharging credit-card customers.
If Governor Andrew Cuomo still believes, as he did when he was elected, that the answer cannot be more and more taxes levied on New Yorkers, a good place to start backing his past rhetoric would be to reduce tax burdens for business owners.
The system had to be funded entirely by a payroll tax levied half on employers and half on workers, so that it could be presented to the nation as a sort of contributory insurance plan.
In the US, analysts said the fact that the fees levied on banks would be spread out over a decade would diminish their impact.
Local hotel taxes levied on overnight guests should be standardized and used to finance tourism initiatives, he said.
Any shortfall will be guaranteed by the state, in return for a fee levied on the banks.
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Under the proposed VAT system, only two rates of 4% and 12.5% will be imposed on most of the products on which various kinds of sales taxes are levied at present.
For example, in the United States physical gold (including gold held in ETFs) is generally considered to be a collectible, which is taxed at 28 percent, rather than the 15 percent levied on most financial securities.
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