During the decade ended in June 2006, only Nebraska passed a major expansion of taxes on services.
These services are part of the fabric of life in America, supported by property taxes on our homes, sales taxes on goods and fees on services.
Taxes on travel-related services, called discriminatory travel taxes, are for things like staying at hotels, renting cars, and eating in restaurants.
By raising consumption taxes on products and services targeting the affluent while reducing or maintaining income tax levels, the Chinese government has been able to sustain consumer confidence, increase spending (retail sales have risen 16-18% annually over the last three years), and get needed tax revenue for infrastructure projects required to maintain employment numbers.
Printing money is an invisible tax on savings, much easier to initiate, than, say, raising taxes or cutting back on services and entitlements.
But once elected, he supported raising taxes on gasoline and other services, which hit all tax brackets.
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Taxes derived from property were considered to be direct taxes while indirect taxes were those on labor and services.
There are many accepted taxes on similarly un-corporeal services.
Since Web Utopians usually brag of their egalitarian instincts, they might reflect, between sips of cappuccino, on who shoulders the cost of public services when we skip paying excise taxes on items delivered online.
Tax receipts plunge, giving the government a stark choice of cutting back on services, raising taxes or increased deficit spending.
These higher taxes have funded record increases on public services, but Mr Brown has been less than straightforward about the fact that the spending spree is over.
But continuing to provide unsustainable pension benefits will mean higher taxes and lower spending on actual public services--taxpayers shouldn't have to endure that so public employees can enjoy special pension treatment.
The Treasury has always been fiercely resistant to the idea of "hypotheticated" taxes which fund specific services, on the grounds that they would be vulnerable to future fluctuations of the economy.
To replace the loss of revenues, Huckabee advocates a consumption tax on goods and services that includes a monthly "prebate, " designed to offset taxes on necessities.
Those areas, however, are primarily in the economic and social spheres and the sorts of changes that would result (higher taxes on the wealthy, higher spending on social services) would make most people in the West go batty.
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Taxes on imports are those levied on imported goods and services.
And it notes that the government has ruled out the alternative way of putting pressure on services firms putting up taxes so that consumers have less to spend.
For some time the party has managed to have it both ways: seen by many Labour voters as defenders of the public services and willing to raise taxes, while on the ground chasing or being chased by the Tories for seats.
Members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law recently held a hearing on three of the bills, aimed at fixing the problem on behalf of state and local governments--which depend on sales taxes to support police, fire, and other crucial services--and calming fears about the negative effect of e-commerce on their tax bases.
No matter how much gambling the law allows, taxes on the money players lose will never be enough to finance the government services on which jobs and private wealth creation depend.
Come the autumn, Catalan politicians may find voters more worried about taxes and public services than about the trimming of their still-generous charter on autonomy.
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Unlike most other nations, the US taxes its persons on their worldwide income irrespective of where the individual lives, where services are performed, where investments are sited and held, and where remuneration or other payments are remitted.
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Taxes on products include the items whose rates directly depend on the value of goods produced and services rendered.
Without the sales tax due on online purchases, states may have to cut these public services or raise other taxes, such as property or income tax.
Higher levels of debt imply higher interest payments on that debt, which would eventually require either higher taxes or a reduction in government benefits and services.
Peter Lanza is tax director and vice president of taxes for GE Energy Financial Services in the New York City area, according to his resume posted on the website LinkedIn.
Financial services are so globalised that it probably requires the International Monetary Fund to make new taxes on bonuses and financial transactions effective, along with other measures to curb excessive risk-taking.
True, he boasts about cutting wasteful spending and freezing his share of London council taxes, but then assures voters that billions saved at City Hall have been freed for spending on other services.
He has proposed eliminating the state income tax a move cheered on by conservatives by raising sales taxes and possibly boosting tobacco taxes and broadening the list of services taxed by the state.
In January, Rob Woodall (R-GA) introduced a bill in Congress to repeal income, employment and estate and gift taxes and instead impose a 23 percent sales tax on the use or consumption of all goods, properties and services.
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