As our economy continues to recover and demand rebounds, oil prices are almost certain to rise, the equivalent of a heavy tax on our GDP.
It should also make investing in Japan more attractive for middle-size U.S. companies that find the Japanese market daunting under the current heavy tax, says Mentz.
Unfortunately, in the lead-up to the euro, countries pursued overly stringent fiscal policies -- in other words, governments have been increasing their citizens' too-heavy tax burdens rather than lightening them.
Republican Governor James Gilmore of Virginia won office two years ago by promising to phase out the state's heavy tax on cars, a levy that costs motorists several hundred dollars a year.
Widely acknowledged even by his political opponents as a master of the complex budget portfolio, Mr Cahuzac charted the government's tax-heavy 2013 budget and plans for the following four years through parliament.
In theory, employers pay a tax exactly as heavy as that levied on their workers.
Oil companies and Boing and all sorts of other large companies with heavy lobbies get billions in tax credits.
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The tax burden is heavy, at around 35% of GDP, especially in comparison to the quality of services the state provides, and government spending is rising faster than GDP.
The implication is, of course, that noncompliant taxpayers would continue to avoid their tax obligations without a heavy-handed approach.
Fearing the possibility of heavy fines and prosecution, many tax evaders from the U.S., Germany and France have come forward to report their assets.
No, Buffalo isn't a tax delinquent deserving special heavy-handed treatment.
We manage investments using the Endowment Model pioneered by Yale University, manage an oil and gas program, and do some heavy-duty domestic and international tax and estate planning for families.
Small businesspeople who were formerly the base of Pasok but who have been radicalised by the tax rises, tax clampdowns and repeated heavy policing of demonstrations, and who are the most likely to be ruined by any long-term structural reform in Greece.
This is no coincidence, for the Empire State has a tax burden that is notoriously heavy.
The upshot is a competition for commercial development that pulls new buildings towards richer suburbs and out of city centres, which have ill-trained workforces and heavy welfare burdens and cannot afford favourable tax treatment for developers.
The state offers tax relief and public debt to heavy industry but not to high-tech companies.
But, even among Democrats, Florio carries some heavy political baggage -- including a big tax increase that not only cost him his re-election but battered the Democrats in the state Legislature.
The third quarter of 2011 marks the seventh consecutive quarter of revenue increases, according to Rockefeller Institute (in the fiscal year through June 2011, states posted their strongest revenue growth figures since 2005), though local government tax revenues are weak due to heavy dependence on property taxes.
It was one of several new details that emerged during a contentious four-hour House committee hearing Friday, held one week after an IRS official revealed at a legal conference that the agency had taken "absolutely inappropriate" actions in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status for often heavy-handed scrutiny.
Before the Bush tax cut, dividends labored under a heavy handicap--they were taxed twice: once when the company earned the money, a second time when the dividend passed into the hands of the investor.
Countries with heavy debt burdens (like Italy), whose tax base has collapsed (Ireland and Spain), which had a big budget deficit to start with (Britain) or whose long-term growth prospects have been hit hardest (Spain) should fear a sudden loss of investors' confidence more than those with smaller deficits (Germany), better demographic prospects (America) or a reserve currency (America again).
In part, we still have a tax system that was designed for factory-heavy manufacturers.
Right now, the tax code not to mention the heavy burden of regulation and wasteful spending constrains us all.
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With or without the threat of a dividend-tax increase, investors with a dividend-heavy portfolio should consider balancing their approach by adding something as simple as a broad-market index fund, Mr. Dickson says.
During the course of the investigation Barrett uncovered apparent tax violations by Cisneros, as well as heavy-handed attempts by the Clinton Administration to misuse and abuse the powers of the Internal Revenue Service.
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.
Of the five fields that have received approval or come on-stream this quarter, four qualify for the small field tax allowance and one qualifies for the ultra-heavy oilfield allowance.
His economic initiatives seem to be starting to bear fruit: Caterpillar, a heavy-equipment giant, said last month that new business-tax laws have persuaded it to add workers at an Indiana factory where it had previously cut jobs.
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Tax is a growing problem for companies based in countries with heavy imposts.
Primary examples: gains from investments and asset sales, sharp declines in tax rates, overly optimistic assumptions on pension plan returns and heavy reliance on stock options as a form of compensation.
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