• The legislation would allow the Scottish Parliament to set rates of income tax, although Westminster would continue to control rates of corporation tax and duties on alcohol and cigarettes.

    BBC: Scotland Bill Committee part 1

  • Dubai's attractions are many: In addition to glitzy shopping malls, it boasts so-called "free zones, " which allow for 100% foreign ownership, 100% repatriation of capital and profits, exemption from corporate tax and no import duties.

    FORBES: Contenders For The Crown

  • Having ticked off one purchase on his London shopping list, Mr Salmond is likely to renew his focus on other items - including control of corporation tax and alcohol excise duties along with wider borrowing powers.

    BBC: Reaching a compromise over fuel levy cash

  • Input data on, say, sales and demand for Palms, and SimFlex factors in Customs duties and tax policies to help choose where to have products made and how to ship them.

    FORBES: The Detour Economy

  • Other taxes on production include: taxes on use of natural resources (environment tax), payments for land (land tax), licenses, state duties and levies payable by enterprises and organisations, real estate tax, extraordinary Ghernobyl mitigation tax.

    UNESCO: Belarus: Report: Part I: Descriptive Section

  • The recent budget saw tweaks to tax rates, debt quotas and duties, all implausibly heralded as big steps.

    ECONOMIST: India��s economy

  • The only specific commitments given by Mr Portillo were that a Tory government would cut taxes on business and enterprise, cut duties on fuel, restore the married couple's tax allowance and provide encouragement to increase private spending on health.

    ECONOMIST: On the up

  • Import quotas have largely been replaced with customs duties, and subsidies, tax breaks and other special favours for farmers scaled back.

    ECONOMIST: South African farming

  • But senior Afghan officials have said U.S. contractors routinely abuse their tax-exempt status to evade import duties and illegally engage in commercial activities.

    WSJ: Kabul's Tax Levies Raise Flags From U.S. Watchdog

  • C. unemployment tax could be used to create exactly the kind of distraction and delay those duties must avoid.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Alcohol duties and air duty will be frozen - but tobacco tax will go up by two percentage points above inflation.

    BBC: Budget 2011: George Osborne aims to 'fuel' growth

  • The report backs the devolution of vehicle excise and air passenger duties - but warns that transferring control of corporation tax to Scotland might simply encourage company tax-dodging.

    BBC: Scottish Labour considers case for devolving income tax

  • Next year the central Bosnian state, as opposed to its two main entities, will begin collecting customs duties and preparing to do the same for value-added tax from 2006.

    ECONOMIST: Some hopeful news from the Balkans

  • To finance its half-billion-dollar annual budget, the Hamas government has instituted an effective tax regime, raising duties on tunnel imports, including cigarettes, petrol, clothes and bread.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and Gaza

  • In most of the Gulf states, which do not even levy income tax, duties are the third-biggest source of government finance after oil exports and investment income.

    ECONOMIST: Middle Eastern smugglers

  • He offered up five tax cuts (abolishing death duties went down particularly well with the aging audience) and four examples of getting rid of red tape, including scrapping the Environmental Protection Agency.

    BBC: Has Republican hopeful Newt Gingrich given up hope?

  • The OTS's remit covers UK taxes and duties administered by HM Revenue and Customs, but it will not deal with tax credits or taxes administered by other bodies nor will it have any influence on setting tax rates.

    BBC: Tax system 'to be simplified to encourage investment'

  • Thus, applying CVD duties and antidumping duties against imports from NME countries double counts the amount of the subsidy and results in a double tax on imports.

    FORBES: President Obama's Chance to Fix Deteriorating Economic Relations with China

  • The right way to deal with greenhouse gases is through economy-wide measures, such as a carbon tax, rather than by picking on road transport, which accounts for only a fifth of all emissions and already pays more in various duties than would be extracted from it through any reasonable level of carbon tax.

    ECONOMIST: Roads and rail

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