While only about 20 of those who paid the head tax are still alive and fewer than 300 of their widows, Chinese-Canadians now form a community of around 1m with considerable political and economic clout.
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"There's unprecedented interest in the amount of corporation tax businesses pay, " Mary Monfries, head of tax policy at PwC, said.
Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at Deloitte, said his firm was doing nothing wrong.
"I don't have the exact figure, but it's a lot, " said Apple's head of tax operations.
He appeared with Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer and Head of Tax Operations Phillip Bullock.
Who knows how long it would have taken if Solomon weren't Treasury's head of tax policy?
He began work at Commerzbank as Head of Tax, North America, on September 1, 2011.
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Chas Roy-Chowdhury, head of tax at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, says naming and shaming is a dangerous game to play.
"The FTT can work, and the UK's stamp duty is a good example of that, " said Richard Asquith, the head of tax at accountancy firm TMF Group.
Comiskey, the head of tax enforcement at the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, published a startling report in Tax Notes on the results to date of an ongoing two -year-old program.
Bill Dodwell, head of tax policy at the accountants Deloitte, told the BBC that he suspected the figure was a "sensible number taking account of the scale of the business and their history of past losses".
They complain the cruise industry is profiting without having to pay a statewide head or tourism tax.
"This was a very big curve ball, " said Jay Wheatley, head of the tax-exempt bond syndicate desk at Citigroup.
He has held public office only twice, as finance minister for a year in 1993, and as head of the tax service for three months in 1998.
At the end of June 2011, Lois Lerner, the Washington-based head of the tax-exempt unit, was briefed on the criteria, said the report, and ordered the wording be revised.
But the tax increases have met with strong opposition from Cuccinelli, whom McDonnell has endorsed, and Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and guardian of its Taxpayer Protection Pledge.
"There is no possibility of repeal of the estate tax with Congress so divided, " says Ronald Pearlman, a former Reagan Administration Treasury official and now head of the graduate tax law program at Georgetown University Law Center.
As a result, some Spanish regions where pre-tax income per head is lower than in Catalonia end up with higher post-tax income.
Overall growth in 2003 was better than 8.5%, the figure predicted by the head of the state tax office last week.
Mr Serdyukov was a furniture store executive and head of the Russian tax service before being appointed defence minister in 2007.
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In particular, she was impressed with the strings pulled by Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and a formidable conservative coalition-builder.
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Grover Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, a lobby group, replied that governments should not regulate private behaviour unless it was criminal.
The head of the IRS tax-exempt office has said the practice was started in a branch office in Cincinnati, Ohio, where most of the applications were processed, and was not motivated by political bias.
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On Friday, Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division, apologized for "inappropriate" actions by workers in subjecting applications of some conservative groups that had "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, among other criteria.
Compared with France, Britain in the 1790s already had a bigger manufacturing base, a higher income per head and hence a tax base wide enough to pay for 22 years of conflict that led to the emperor's Waterloo.
His wife, Marleny Contreras, is a congresswoman and his brother, Jose David Cabello, is currently the head of Venezuela's tax authority Seniat.
Tax on oil and gas production would also have given an independent Scotland a higher tax take per head over the three decades.
Despite such sentiments, both sides still seemed eager to head off the big 2013 tax hikes which will hit the middle class, as well as the wealthy, without a deal.
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Ms Sturgeon, giving the final key speech of the conference, said that for every one of the last 30 years Scotland had generated more tax revenue per head than the UK as a whole.
"On the basis of what's been investigated so far, in six months we've recorded 392 million pesos in fraudulent transactions, generated by evasion and money laundering, " said Ricardo Echegaray, head of Argentina's tax agency.
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