Denmark's "fat tax" is clearly a long way from a panacea to solve the overwhelming problems obesity causes.
The measure, introduced a little over a year ago, was believed to be the world's first so-called "fat tax".
There is, though, a big difference between the Republic's proposed sugar tax and Denmark's fat tax, which also affected protein rich foods such as meat and cheese.
The ministry said one of the effects of the fat tax was that some Danes had begun crossing the border into Germany to stock up on food there.
The fat tax was instead fried by Danish farmers complaining of the high administrative cost of fat-tax compliance, and losing business to foreign competitors who were running away with the bacon and the kringles.
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The story notes that unless the company gets an exemption, the company will receive a fat tax bill from the city when its employees opt to exercise their stock options once the company goes public.
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His books always seemed to come out around election time, almost as if he were using a potential candidacy as a reason to go on chat shows and talk about his latest proposal to outsource Medicare to Mars or give fat people tax credits for gastric bands.
The AMT is a shadow tax system ostensibly designed to make sure that fat cats with tax breaks like oil-well depletion pay at least some tax.
Additional financial tax ideas including an FAT (financial-activities tax on bank profits) were also considered.
Just to make things even more interesting, some versions of the FAT would not tax all profits, only those that are very high.
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It wants to reduce the fat retirement savings tax breaks that now go to the highest earners, while encouraging ordinary folks to save for retirement.
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While six of Australia's top ten export markets are already in recession, the chief impact has come from the slowdown in one that is not: China, its biggest trading partner, and the main driver of a minerals boom that has fed fat company-tax revenues.
This shadow tax system, created in 1969 to make sure fat cats with oil wells paid some tax, now hits upper-middle-income folks who claim too many deductions for ordinary stuff like state and local taxes.
The amt is that shadow tax system originally designed to make sure that fat cats with oil wells paid at least some tax.
On these shores, Bundyism is a handy discovery for politicians who want to promise fat Social Security benefits with no tax increases.
This would help parents protect their children from foods which contain excessive levels of sugar, salt and fat in a way that a tax wouldn't.
Congress also needs to fix looming problems with the Alternative Minimum Tax, a complicated shadow tax system originally designed to nail fat cats.
During the internet bubble, managers exercising fat packages of stock options paid a lot of tax at once, instead of a lesser amount spread over several years.
The second option is a financial activities tax (known, sadly, as a FAT).
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The AMT was enacted in 1969 to catch fat cats claiming large and seemingly obscure special kinds of tax deductions.
France introduced a soda tax last year and Hungary introduced a broader tax against products high in sugar, salt or fat.
You have to pay tax on the converted amount, but this tax bill vanishes if there happens to be a fat deduction on hand.
The Liberal Democrats have occasionally mooted things like a sugar tax, and people have talked about taxing the saturated fat content of processed foods.
Most of the Republican candidates, including Mr Romney, the erstwhile scourge of the fat cats, argue that more of the poor should pay at least some income tax.
"In other words, whether you build a business up over 30 years and then dispose of all or part of it, or whether you buy a bunch of shares at 0900 and then sell them at a fat profit at 1000, you'll now pay exactly the same 18% rate of tax, " said Robert Peston, the BBC's business editor.
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