Mr Atta Mills was national tax commissioner under Mr Rawlings before being promoted to the vice-presidency.
But some countries, including Britain, remain determined to introduce some sort of national tax on banks.
Eurobonds are corporate debt instruments issued outside the control of national tax authorities, and therefore pay interest gross.
"Eventually, inevitably, the better-off will face higher rates, " says Clint Stretch, managing principal of national tax policy at Deloitte Tax.
Now Britain is pushing an alternative scheme whereby national tax authorities would exchange information about payments to non-residents, instead of taxing them.
But differences in national tax systems, for example over the portability and taxability of pensions, could be construed as an impediment to labour mobility.
The bill aims to create a national tax policy for products and services downloaded via the Internet, such as mobile music, games, applications and e-books.
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Meanwhile in the private sector, prices have risen by 30%, so with a little luck, the national tax income has risen by nearly that figure.
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Although it will have little impact on the immediate crisis, Europe's leaders have taken big steps towards co-ordinating national tax and spending policies in the future.
National tax rates are actually very low in these countries.
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"We'll see the fallout starting on this year's tax return, " says Justin Ransome, a tax partner for family wealth planning in Grant Thornton's national tax office in Washington, D.
Though his definition of harmful tax competition does not extend to basic rates of corporation tax, it would still target national tax breaks aimed at bringing in foreign investors.
Nina Olson, the national tax advocate, whose job at the IRS is to protect taxpayers' interests, has called for new laws that would require a third-party payroll service to post a bond for its clients that would cover any lost tax payments.
In this topsy-turvy environment, you might be better off turning the conventional year-end advice on its head if your bracket will be higher next year, says John Hewitt, chief executive of Liberty Tax Service, a national tax preparation firm based in Virginia Beach, Va.
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The prospective 35 percent rate (actually 35.64 percent, combining a 23.71 percent national tax with local taxes totalling 13.93 percent) will compare with a 33.33 percent all in rate in France, 28 percent in the U.K., 25 percent in China, and 24 percent in Korea.
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In addition to the ideas favored by the insurers, the alternatives included levying a national tax to pay for uncompensated care, increasing federal subsidies to help people purchase health insurance, encouraging credit-ratings firms to use health-insurance status in determining ratings, and expanding employers' roles in enrolling people in insurance plans.
For example, Ohio, Texas, New York South Carolina and Washington tax computing services directly, while Utah and the City of Chicago tax the cloud only when deals involve the transfer of control or possession of software as well as computing services, according to national tax-services company WTAS. At least two states, Vermont and Idaho, have recently passed rules to explicitly exempt cloud-based services from state sales tax.
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One reason is that the U.S. is about the only major industrialized nation that does not also have a Value-Added Tax or national sales tax.
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Unlike the second-tier Republican candidates, Messrs Forbes, Keyes and Bauer, who all favour some kind of radical shift towards a flat tax or national sales tax, the front-runners have few ideas for reforming the current tax system.
As with Obamanomics, the unspoken understanding, or desire, of the technocrats is to fund additional incentives, as well as to pay for the welfare state, by raising the consumption tax (national sales tax) from the current 5 percent to something much higher.
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And they had serious debates about the merits of a flat tax versus a national sales tax.
The legislation will begin the great debate on what will replace this monstrosity -- a flat tax or a national sales tax.
He believes the current tax system to be complex and unfair, and he suggests replacing it with either a flat tax or a national sales tax.
At least the Fair Tax Plan proposal requires a Constitutional Convention to eliminate the income tax before instituting a national sales tax.
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Others want to replace income tax entirely with a national sales tax.
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Businessman Herman Cain, who has his poll ratings surge in recent weeks, proposes a "9-9-9" tax plan that would replace the current code with a 9% income tax, business tax, and a national sales tax.
He favors abolishing the income tax in favor of a national sales tax.
He also wants to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and replace the federal income tax with a 23% national sales tax.
She has hammered him for co-sponsoring a law to replace the federal tax code with a 23% national sales tax.
He then substitutes a personal income tax of 9%, a corporate income tax of 9%, and a national sales tax of 9%.
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