It constitutes impressing private citizens into the federal police apparatus and imposing a hidden tax on businesses.
Lots of states have been using cheesy budget gimmicks or hidden tax hikes to plug their budget holes.
It's a hidden tax, and repealing it would make small businesses more competitive.
"It is, in essence, a hidden tax on all non-residential users, " Bilas said.
Inflation is the great hidden tax, especially when it hits essentials like food.
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At the top of Olson's list of concerns was perhaps the nation's most famous hidden tax--the alternative minimum tax (AMT).
The hidden tax that comes when someone does finally show up at the emergency room will be passed onto everyone else.
Yankowski asserted that he didn't believe the recent U.K. auction of five 3G licenses would wind up becoming a hidden tax on the consumer, or even a constraint on competition.
So meanwhile, by expanding coverage for more Americans, we're going to help eliminate the "hidden tax" of more than a thousand dollars that the average worker is paying to cover the medical expenses of the uninsured.
And it was Congress that imposed an individual requirement to buy health insurance on each American, with penalties for those who do not comply (hidden tax), with additional costs and penalties on businesses that are another hidden tax on businesses.
Politicians favor the latter since it acts like a hidden sales tax.
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Like all multinational corporations it is an amalgam of many hundreds or thousands of companies, spread far and wide, many of them hidden in tax havens for reasons we know not why.
Meanwhile, Oakland Tribune columnist Daniel Borenstein notes that his city has levied what he calls a "hidden pension tax" on property owners for decades to pay off a municipal pension fund that went bust in 1976.
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Not if both sides are willing to attack the spending hidden in our tax code.
Tax evaders have until September 2016 to disclose hidden assets and pay the tax, interest and any penalties due.
Although the tax increase listed above is clear, there are other more veiled estate tax changes hidden within.
Of the many loopholes hidden away in the tax code, percentage depletion is one of the easiest targets and at the top of the list.
Our own Steve Forbes has argued that one way to clean up the tax code and expose hidden taxes is through the adoption of a federal "flat" tax, a single rate for individuals and business that would eliminate most of the deductions and exemptions now in place.
Tax expenditures raise your effective tax burden if you are not the beneficiary of any of this hidden government largesse, and reduce your tax burden if you are on the receiving end.
Banco Fator, the investment bank advising the government on the sale, insists that adequate provision has been made for any remaining bad debts, plus any liabilities for staff pensions, tax arrears and other hidden horrors that often come to light when a Brazilian company is sold.
Billions of dollars are widely thought to be hidden in Switzerland, Singapore and other tax havens.
In addition to tax time bombs, there are other hidden costs associated with taxes that most people are oblivious to.
The competition authorities are taking a hard look at Vivendi's new tax treatment to determine whether it is a hidden form of illegal state aid.
They've been pushing everything from hidden offshore accounts, bogus domestic trusts and discredited "tax protester" arguments (say, that the income tax isn't legal) to abusive insurance, deferred compensation and charitable deduction schemes.
The group has argued that that corporate taxes, payroll taxes and so-called "bracket creep"--where taxpayers are bumped into a higher tax bracket because of inflation--are all examples of hidden taxes.
While appropriations have some level of transparency, tax preferences often are obscurely drafted and dropped into larger bills, hidden from public view.
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The authority had not hidden the fact that for five years there would be large increases in council tax while new waste management facilities were built.
Tax expert and UK government adviser John Whiting said he was sceptical that the amount hidden was so large.
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