It constitutes impressing private citizens into the federal police apparatus and imposing a hidden tax on businesses.
As Boehner indicated, efforts to comply with laws are a huge hidden tax on every American business.
Most chilling, however, is the basic truth that government spending is a hidden tax on the present.
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.
This is a hidden tax forced on low-to-moderate income consumers, it is absent disclosure and there is no recourse for targeted borrowers to protest, even if they knew!
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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.
Surely the reason why the government resorts to a hidden tax is precisely that the public's top priorities in the past have led to the neglect of the causes you mention.
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.
It will only be possible, however, if we clearly understand how spending is hidden in the tax code and what reformers might do about it if we see that tax policy and spending policy are not always as distinct as we might think.
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.
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