My first goal is to attract the largest possible audience so I can charge confiscatory ad rates.
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In those days Britain's socialist government taxed high earners at a confiscatory 98%.
Countries would receive credits for payments surpluses, which would be subject to confiscatory taxes if they got too big.
But it makes little sense to impose confiscatory tax rates which would collect little revenue while discouraging economic activity.
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If confiscatory taxation limits the gains needed to offset losses, fewer people will be willing to help others avoid risks.
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For instance, the hefty estate tax suffered by Miss Windsor is best rectified by eliminating confiscatory estate taxes, not redefining marriage.
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Five trillion is a more normal range considering how confiscatory cash remains.
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Along the lines of the above, a more confiscatory estate tax is often trotted out as a way of equalizing wealth inequalities.
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Even when faced with confiscatory restructuring terms, most western banks have chosen to settle rather than risk a tussle in the courts.
Too high tax rates are an economic killer because they create a confiscatory feeling that kills off any incentive for work, gain or risk.
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But few if any actually paid these kinds of confiscatory rates.
They're taxed at rates of up to 46% and up to a confiscatory 113% if the wealth skips a living generation and is passed to grandkids.
Kamprad has shrouded his business in an opaque collection of trusts and holding companies, in part to shelter Ikea from Sweden's confiscatory taxes and death duties.
Some libertarians are in favour of confiscatory estate taxes on exactly these grounds: they see inherited wealth as affirmative action for the children of the rich.
Scant chance that investors find non-confiscatory yields going out 10 years on bond maturities, currently at 2 percent, maybe ratcheting up 50 basis points over 12 months.
Cyprus when bank depositors had electronic transfers blocked and were initially told to prepare for a confiscatory levy of up to 9.9% of their deposit balances across the board.
Amazon was recently subjected to a drive-by Google-caching (pictured), revealing similar confiscatory rates to what we're used to by now for downloaded video content, and potential TV show downloads.
Simply stated, it is very difficult for governments to impose and enforce confiscatory tax rates when investors and entrepreneurs can shift their economic activity to jurisdictions with better tax policy.
Cypriots are already going to feel the ferocity from the effects of a recession caused by lower wages and high unemployment, they do not need the additional confiscatory measures of their deposits being taken.
Such confiscatory rates are hard to imagine now.
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While its true that major free cash flow generators like Microsoft and Apple rest complacent and keep tens of billions in nearly confiscatory money market paper, Google is much more proactive on cash acquisitions like YouTube and Double-Click.
But he hinted that the rate would be lower than 75 per cent, pointing out that the constitutional council had indicated that a total tax burden above that level, including other levies, "could be judged as a confiscatory rate" by the council.
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