You try to levy a tax for their own good, and they just change their behavior.
If SUVs are bad and wind power is good, then we must levy a tax on gas-guzzlers and hand out tax credits for windmills.
They charge up to ten times more than informal channels, must change money at official rates and, in some countries, levy a tax on the exchange.
Another option that comes to mind would be to levy a tax on corporations that outsource work to foreign countries thereby decreasing the pool of jobs in America.
But Tory former minister John Redwood, leader of his party's policy group on economic competitiveness, branded the bank levy a tax on lending money to businesses and individuals.
Much of the focus for all global markets this week was news that Cyprus was planning to levy a tax on bank deposits as part of a bailout package from eurozone officials.
In some places Taleban levy a tax on the proceeds of the opium crop but they deny media reports that this nets them a small fortune to pursue their conflict with their opponents of the northern alliance.
Again, I want to thank President Obama for his understanding on all matters, including that of a levy or a tax on financial transactions, where I think we found common ground, at least common analysis, mainly that the world of finance must contribute to solving the crisis that we are all facing today.
On tax, the industry argues that states that levy a lower tax on gambling actually receive larger tax revenues and a comparison between low-tax Nevada and New Jersey, and high-tax New York seems to support the argument.
It is a hard question to answer in Britain, where the new Labour government is poised to levy a windfall tax on privatised utilities, where the electricity regulator will impose a tighter cap on electricity distribution charges in 2000, and where competition in the supply of electricity to domestic consumers is due to start next year.
Ecuador has also proposed that OPEC levy a carbon tax at the oil wellhead, a concept devised by environmental economist Herman Daly.
Nevertheless, her campaign has echoed Mr Humala's pledges to levy a windfall tax on mining companies and give Andean Indian communities veto rights over mining and oil projects on their land.
Or how about we levy a special tax on newspapers and magazines and direct the money into a New Media Trust Fund out of which bureaucrats can support research on new non-dead-tree methods of disseminating news?
Such a levy is dubbed a Tobin tax after economist James Tobin, who mooted a global tax on currency trades in the 1970s.
The State of New Hampshire is one of nine states in America that does not levy a personal income tax on most forms of wages or income.
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Entrepreneurs with a wider range of mobility are leaving the Southwest altogether for states that do not levy a personal income tax, such as Texas, Washington, or Florida.
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He said the Aggregates Levy was a stealth tax introduced by Gordon Brown, but that the derogation scheme for Northern Ireland had introduced effective environmental controls to the quarry industry.
As mentioned earlier, be it a flat tax or a consumption levy, both would be huge improvements on what we have at the moment.
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For them, a property tax would be a levy not on their home, but on the wealth they have locked up in property that often lies vacant.
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The reason is simple: A consumption levy would not tax income from saving, and low- and moderate-income people save a lot less than the rich.
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It may be a broad-based levy such as a Value-Added Tax or an energy tax.
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The executors argued the painting was merely a "plant" used to boost visitors and should be exempt from a tax levy.
Fortunately, third-parties have immunity for honoring a tax levy.
YOU'LL BE SHORTCHANGED Some advocates of a national internet sales tax say such a levy could be made more palatable by combining it with the repeal of federal and perhaps state telephone taxes, which can add up to an almost 20% exaction on your phone calls.
To try to get a sense of what such a levy would do to the tax burden across incomes, the Tax Policy Center analyzed a generic consumption tax designed to replace most federal taxes.
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The bill would include an extension of a provision to protect millions of middle-class Americans from paying the Alternative Minimum tax, a levy initially designed to affect only the wealthiest Americans but that was not indexed for inflation.
From April, Tokyo's city government plans to levy a 2-3% tax on the operating profits of big banks based in the capital.
But the bailout came with conditions that Cyprus levy a 9.9% tax on bank accounts over 100, 000 euros and roughly 6.5% tax on accounts holding less than that.
Republicans, by contrast, will argue that allowing the payroll levy to expire is not a tax increase at all since it was always scheduled to come to an end.
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