The popular social media site, headquartered in San Francisco, allows readers to send and read tax-based messages of up to 140 characters.
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The more a county becomes an established bastion of wealth, the more residents from the surrounding areas want to move there, driving up prices for homes and creating superior tax-based services.
That might make you wonder: whatever happened to the idea of a local income tax replacing buildings-based council tax?
New measures were put in place this month to tax dollar-based loans from offshore institutions based on Brazil.
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"Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) is a profits-based tax that raises more revenue when profits are higher and less when they are lower, " he explained.
Among the tax options on the table, which also include a global financial transaction fee (called a "Tobin tax" after Nobel-winning economist James Tobin, who proposed a tax on foreign-currency transactions in the 1970s) and a Bonus Tax, a risk-based fee is the most efficient solution.
In addition to a flat road tax, Plug-In America also thinks a tax based on the vehicle miles traveled plus weight should be considered, and that a suite of incentives -- both financial and nonfinancial -- should be enacted to spur EV adoption.
Over time, this tax disparity helped employer-based health insurance dominate the private insurance market.
The tax rate after adjusting for tax effects from stock-based compensation and restructuring looks to be 10.5%.
Then stand up in support of broad-based tax cuts and greater free trade. n Congressional Democrats: Make our day!
If a consumption-based tax reform like this had been passed in 2000, North Carolina would be an entirely different place.
We must therefore find ways to reduce deficits without extremely painful cuts to health and retirement entitlements or broad-based tax increase.
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If policy makers opted for significant immediate spending cuts or broad-based tax increases, the result could be worse than the cliff.
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The proper response would have been a focus on long-term spending control and pro-growth policies, not a panic-based, growth-discouraging tax hike.
Export subsidies in general tend to be regressive, since they take money from broad-based tax revenues and give it to corporate shareholders.
Nor is it clear that a broad-based tax cut makes good policy.
Rick Santorum, who may have won the Iowa caucuses after all, favors a huge broad-based tax cut that would massively increase the budget deficit.
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There are other, possibly cheaper, online and computer-based tax filing options that can walk you through the tax preparation and filing process step by step.
In place of the old taxes, the reform calls for a new consumption-based tax system, largely via expanding and slightly increasing the state sales tax.
And that makes any broad-based tax reform in 2013 very difficult.
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Or, to put it another way, who would lose if Congress trimmed or even eliminated some of these provisions as part of a broad-based tax reform.
If the opinion polls, party unity and budgetary reality all argue against broad-based tax cuts, it is hard to see them topping a convincing Republican agenda.
"I believe that the taxpayers of the state of New Jersey have earned and deserve broad-based tax relief now, " wrote Mr. Christie in his veto message.
This growth package must be built on broad-based tax relief that will directly affect economic growth--and not the kind of spending projects that would have little immediate impact on our economy.
Obama has shown little interest in broad-based tax reform.
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And a significant fraction of the population does not have health insurance today, despite the large premium subsidies currently offered in the form of Medicare and Medicaid and tax breaks for employment-based health insurance.
Also, because the depressing effect of spending cuts will already deliver a major blow to the sagging economy, broad-based tax increases (like letting all Bush tax rates expire) will almost guarantee a double dip recession in 2013.
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Administration officials point to a report by the Democratic staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week that determined that in Oregon and Washington the competition is lowering premium rates even before income-based tax credits are taken into account.
Obama's plans to finance an ambitious clean energy agenda by imposing a de facto carbon-emissions tax in the form of an auction-based cap-and-trade system has set the stage for an epic showdown on Capitol Hill over carbon emissions and energy legislation.
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