That is one of the ways in which increasing a tax rate can reduce the total tax yield, thereby defeating the whole supposed object of the tax-raising exercise.

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Predictably, firms often set these prices to minimise their tax liability, and sometimes tax authorities object.

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Liberals might object to a maximum tax, since it leaves out all the benefits that we get from government.

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However, small business owners object to a national sales tax on the internet.

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Along the way, Joe the Plumber became political road-kill, his professional, political and tax status the object of withering scrutiny and criticism.

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Some might object that root-and-branch tax reform is a hopelessly ambitious scheme, but this only encourages Mr Forbes.

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Obama's targeted tax cuts will make the worthy goal of tax simplification an even more distant object.

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For some on the right, who object even to the idea of a federal income tax, the mandate is an old fight reborn.

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Obama also has encountered resistance from Democrats who are reluctant to support his economic stimulus package because they object to his hard line against earmarks and his proposed tax breaks for businesses.

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And as an immobile object, housing is one of the easiest assets for governments to tax.

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Some might object that a downloaded movie has no physical form, and that there is thus nothing really "there" to tax, but that's an easily vanquished argument.

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