Its main objective seems to be to raise revenue without appearing to borrow or levy taxes.
Russia, for most of the negotiations, was insisting that it should levy taxes and customs dues on the donated food.
In that weekend deal for 10 billion euros, Cyprus would have had to agree to levy taxes on all bank accounts.
India's states also levy taxes on fuel of between 4% and 30%, which the federal ministry has no authority to regulate, he added.
Even as the global economy recovers, its imperatives are making it harder for countries to levy taxes as they would like, particularly on capital.
After all, Congress, not unelected bureaucrats, is supposed to levy taxes.
Such measures would generally be void following the Supreme Court's decision in June that the individual mandate was valid under Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes.
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One more-or-less pragmatic option would be to levy taxes on those who have jobs in order to support those who cannot work via unemployment benefits and government work.
The six states with the highest current per-gallon charges--California, Connecticut, Illinois, New York, Michigan and Indiana--all levy taxes based on a percentage of the price of gasoline, meaning when the cost of gas goes up, the state's tax take per gallon goes up too.
Mr. Gaffney warned against the significant erosion in U.S. sovereignty that would attend U.S. endorsement of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) - a supranational organization with unprecedented powers to regulate seven-tenths of the earth's surface, levy taxes, govern ocean research and exploration, and create a multinational court to render and enforce its judgments.
And the provision to levy property taxes at the local level on boats and airplanes was dropped.
It would levy heavy taxes on high-benefit insurance plans to help subsidize an expansion of health care.
Even those Republicans who embrace federal spending on highways are unwilling to levy more taxes to pay for it.
While this is the case at the federal level, all Australian state and territory governments levy payroll taxes on larger employers.
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But in addition to a flat per-gallon charge, a majority of states levy other taxes, including state, county or local sales taxes, plus various environmental and other charges.
To get the money to help connect all U.S. households to the Net, the government would levy new taxes on your telephone landline and on calls made from mobile phones.
And as part of any deal, it wants Congress to affirm that the states can't levy other taxes--such as a corporate income or franchise tax--on companies without facilities in a state.
Given that the price of oil, a large source of revenue, is beyond his control, Mr Chavez's success will depend greatly on his ability to levy new taxes and get the tax take actually taken.
Moreover, although Mr Brown has been willing to levy windfall taxes on capital when it is immobile in the pension funds of ordinary British workers, say he has revealed himself as a wise student of global capital.
This could mean the Welsh Assembly is given more powers to levy some taxes, such as rubbish dumping costs, air passenger duty on flights and stamp duty when buying homes, although it would not be limited to those taxes.
States currently have the authority to levy their own taxes on such goods.
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Hatch has proposed an amendment that would clarify that moneys in a TSP could be subject to levy for back taxes.
In many cases, this alone eliminates U.S. tax liability, since many foreign countries already levy stiff income taxes on all within their borders.
It will charge only 15% corporate-profit tax and levy no income taxes on the finance professionals, lawyers, accountants and creative people it hopes eventually to attract.
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Indian states levy their own entertainment taxes, which run as high as 60%, and some cap ticket prices.
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The world-weary argue that greenery was merely a convenient cloak beneath which a cash-strapped government could levy a few more taxes.
The Authority (as it is ominously known) has powers unprecedented in the history of multilateral institutions for example, the power to levy what amount to international taxes, with the intention of transferring wealth from developed nations, like the United States, to the developing ones.
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