Tax farming was a practice followed by the Persian and various other ancient empires.

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That tobacco settlement smacks of tax farming: Companies collect the money and remit it to the states.

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It is a modern version of tax farming.

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The other nice thing about farming out your tax work: Professionals know what raises audit flags at the Internal Revenue Service.

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Naturally, those Corsicans who had enjoyed disregarding their tax returns or fiddling their farming subsidies were rather cross about Mr Bonnet's attitude.

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These could range from an overhaul of the tax code to deregulation of farming and the opening up of protected areas of the economy, such as transport and energy, to foreign competition.

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In the 1900s, a Bhutanese "baron" won the right to tax Nepalese who were settling and farming Bhutan's sparsely populated southern plains.

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In part, it is because farming qualifies for some special tax treatment.

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Zug long was a poor farming region, but in 1947 its leaders began to trim tax rates in an effort to attract companies and the well-heeled.

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