They were analogous to the levies in NO: a disaster of some sort waiting to happen.
New York already levies a higher top income tax rate (nearly 9%) than Connecticut (6.5%).
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Obama's proposals for drastic energy-tax increases and other antiopportunity, antigrowth levies will arouse escalating opposition.
That is because income levies tax directly the reward for work, savings, investment, and entrepreneurship.
It led to calls for Prime Minister Gordon Brown to impose similar levies on UK banks.
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He would keep levies light on capital, which would boost investments essential to future prosperity.
Also, the IRS increased the overall use of enforcement tools (liens, levies, and seizures).
But to Singapore's credit, its incessant fiddling with various levies seeks to incentivize work and entrepreneurism.
These levies are undermining the economy as people and capital flee to more benign climes.
America's taxes on profits are around 40%, when you combine federal, state and local levies.
You return home--after more of those gas levies and tolls--and you go through the mail.
States and cities are also finding ways to boost levies, often targeting the never popular utilities.
The corresponding increase for all federal taxes, including payroll levies, is 14.2 percent to 28.1 percent.
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Washington, on the other hand, levies no personal income tax on any of its residents.
Bank credit growth rates across Hungary also plummeted due to the hefty bank levies imposed.
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Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas has been unrelenting in pushing for lower income tax levies.
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This refers to the plethora of fees, levies, licences and bribes the bureaucracy exacts from business.
Other levies and the cascading bureaucracy under Obamacare will repel capital as returns dwindle.
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In a new study for the Tax Foundation William McBride reported that higher levies reduce growth.
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Levies across securities (on capital gains, on dividends and on bond interest) are going up.
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Partly, that's down to the rising cost of generation, of transmission, of social tariffs and environmental levies.
What is perhaps the most troubling for taxpayers is the increased use of liens, levies and seizures.
Following the original provisions of the Constitution, federal taxes consisted of property levies, excise taxes and tariffs.
Sky-high levies at the pump, not innate environmental virtues, is what gets European drivers to buy such small, high-mileage vehicles.
The budget commissioner, Janusz Lewandowski, has floated such ideas as levies on the financial sector or airline tickets.
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The cameras will be self-funding with the running costs paid through levies generated by speed awareness course fees.
One wild card in the state of these levies is the will of the many newly-Republican-dominated state legislatures.
Forty years ago in Japan, one retiree was supported by ten active payers of social insurance levies.
The total number of levies increased by 4 percent, and the total number of seizures increased 4 percent.
Supporters of increased levies argue that it will create a level playing field for the European art market.
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