Nate Blecharczyk cofounder and CTO of Airbnb said that regulation should be different for collaborative consumption services because owners of homes or cars are usually the ones providing the service.
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As more and more people move their music consumption to services like Pandora and Spotify, the mp3 might just be going the way of the CD.
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China wants to re-balance growth towards consumption and services.
As people shift away from traditional methods of music consumption toward services that are easily accessed through mobile devices, they are increasingly able to surround themselves with their favourite music no matter where they go or who they're with.
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The cloud vendor landscape is defined by Cloud Services, Professional Services for Consumption, Enabling Technologies and Professional Services for building and running applications.
General governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services consist of outlays of government institutions on consumer goods and services intended for personal consumption.
Rapid growth over three decades has allowed for transition from a low- to a middle-income country, but has also generated imbalances such as heavy reliance on investment, relatively low levels of private consumption, underdeveloped services, widespread environmental damage, and expanding income gaps.
Final consumption expenditures consist of final consumption expenditures of households, general governmental final consumption expenditures on individual goods and services and collective services, and also final consumption expenditures of non-profit institutions serving households.
General governmental final consumption expenditures on collective services are different from the previous ones.
The richest tenth, about 90% of whom are white, accounts for 46% of national consumption of goods and services.
This includes both residential fixed investment and consumption spending on housing services.
At the stage of use, GDP is calculated as the sum of final consumption of goods and services, gross formation and net exports excluding imports.
There are also other consumption of goods and services that are produced for own use (agricultural produce of personal subsidiary plots, imputed services of owner-occupied dwellings), and received as labour remuneration.
But from where it is now, growing at that pace would mean China transforming itself from a country driven by exports, manufacturing and investment to one centred around domestic services and consumption.
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It s a place where there s a high volume of consumption of digital goods and services.
This argument is generally applied to the prices of goods and services for current consumption by households or businesses.
To replace the loss of revenues, Huckabee advocates a consumption tax on goods and services that includes a monthly "prebate, " designed to offset taxes on necessities.
One of the major questions about the sharing economy or collaborative consumption companies is how these services affect local economies and what economic benefits they bring.
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By raising consumption taxes on products and services targeting the affluent while reducing or maintaining income tax levels, the Chinese government has been able to sustain consumer confidence, increase spending (retail sales have risen 16-18% annually over the last three years), and get needed tax revenue for infrastructure projects required to maintain employment numbers.
Outside simple products and services for local consumption (consumers spending income directly from energy related jobs, or from government redistribution of energy wealth), and development, funded by energy wealth, of local transportation, power, and water infrastructure (starting from a very low base), what local development there has happened has been economically inefficient building empty skyscrapers in the desert.
John L. Mikesell, an Indiana University public finance professor, says that since the sales tax is meant to tax personal consumption, it should be imposed on services bought by consumers and not on those purchased by businesses.
In January, Rob Woodall (R-GA) introduced a bill in Congress to repeal income, employment and estate and gift taxes and instead impose a 23 percent sales tax on the use or consumption of all goods, properties and services.
While the market for translating online video in particular makes up a smaller unquantified subset of the larger industry that provides translation services in all contexts, consumption of online videos continues to increase rapidly. 181 million Americans watched 37 billion online videos in April 2012, according to web measurer comScore.
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In our global economy, the massive consumer surplus generated by free services is primarily spent on the consumption of imported goods.
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Other new services are designed to reduce energy consumption and increase security.
Gross value added is calculated at the level of branches of the economy as the value of output of goods and services less the value of intermediate consumption.
The inability of a bank in a 100% reserve system to lend multiples of the value of my gold places a natural and desirable limit on the demands for goods and services beyond those matching my deferred consumption.
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What price are we all going to pay for these conveniences and safety services if cloud applications keep escalating energy consumption?
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The PHO fund invests in companies that provide potable water, the treatment of water, and the technology and services that are directly related to water consumption.
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