An explicit or direct tax is resented by the public and enough to get someone voted out of office.
He asserts that a tax on going without insurance is not a direct tax, but hardly offers much explanation.
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The third idea, which has been proposed by the Obama Administration, is a direct tax on the balance sheets of large, financial institutions.
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But the court determined that the tax's application to rental income amounted to a tax on real property, violating the Constitution's "direct tax" clause.
In fact, the IFS notes: "no earners have been taken out of the direct tax net" by this generous (not to mention expensive) tax cut.
The act was challenged in federal court and found unconstitutional because it was a direct tax that was not apportioned to the states by population.
Because while most of the taxes are levied on employers, corporations and high-earners (including small businesses), the individual mandate is a direct tax on low- and middle-income Americans.
This would not require any heavy lifting since all honest proponents of a national sales tax want to get rid of the 16th Amendment and replace it with something that unambiguously prohibits any direct tax on income.
He estimated that the additional surcharge, and other direct tax initiatives, such as a withholding tax of 20% on profits distributed by unlisted companies to shareholders through a buyback of shares, would help the government raise a total of 133 billion rupees.
Mr Bush is therefore proposing to introduce a tax credit which would allow people to direct their tax payments to charities rather than to the government.
The idea behind the series of taxes, after the failure of the Stamp Act, was to try a system of indirect taxes since the colonists had reacted so strongly to the direct stamp tax.
Belgium's Finance Minister, Didier Reynders, says he will soon ask EU finance ministers to consider proposals for a direct EU tax - though he insists this would be "without increasing the overall tax burden" on the citizens of Europe.
Besides direct subsidies, tax breaks for coal shouldn't be declared dead yet either.
Lucky for me, however, Congress is doing its best to bail me out and give my riled up commenters somewhere else to direct their employment tax-related ire.
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The first type includes options that would direct some carbon tax revenue back to households in a manner that would benefit households in all income brackets, not just those at the lower end of the income distribution.
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Don't forget about state tax benefits: "A direct IRA donation often provides a state tax benefit because it lowers income, while other charitable gifts can be limited or disallowed, " says Mr. Lifson.
Parera commended Mukherjee for sticking to the deadline of introducing a uniform goods and services tax by April 2010 and abolishing certain direct taxes--the fringe benefit tax, the commodities trading tax and the 10% surcharge on income tax.
It would end the inheritance tax for direct descendants by 2014, for siblings by 2017, and for other heirs by 2019.
Tobacco company Philip Morris USA raised list prices for its major brands by about 71 cents per pack last month "in direct response to the tax increase, " said Bill Phelps, spokesman for Philip Morris' parent company, Altria.
In a working paper published earlier this year, its researchers focused on shake-ups in labour and product markets, as well as tax reforms like reducing the share of direct taxes (on income) in the total tax take.
In most of Asia's maturing economies, planners are forsaking such direct measures as favoritism, tax breaks and concessionary loans to promote development.
That would seem to leave those Tory councils with their hearts set on year on year tax increases in direct ideological conflict with their colleagues at Westminster.
The author neglects to mention the tens of billions of dollars in direct subsidies, grants, tax breaks etc. that are given to the fossil fuel industry each year.
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He denied knowledge of and responsibility for the judgments, repeatedly avoided answering direct questions about the federal tax lien and his Form U4 disclosures, and said he disclosed his bankruptcies on some (though not all) of the Forms U4 he submitted.
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The goal here is not to claim a direct cause and effect between lowered tax rates and these remarkably improved economic metrics.
Money gets pumped into the economy either by a tax cut or tax elimination of levies on returns on investment orgeneral tax cuts or government direct payments.
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Ministers know they need to switch the burden of tax from fuel to direct charges such as motorway tolls or urban congestion charging, but fear voters' reaction.
In 1960 only 15% of federal income tax returns had a zero tax liability, due mostly to low taxable income, a standard deduction, the personal exemption, the dependent exemption, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (a direct subsidy to people for being poor).
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The other thing is that direct ownership of stocks has a big tax advantage.
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