Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called on the first minister to "put the kybosh on the Salmond Super Tax" or large retailer levy.
But after picking a fight with the resources sector over his plans for a super tax on their super profits, the polls slumped again - especially in the mining states of Western Australia and Queensland.
Early on, it did not help that her first policy pronouncements were to signal a retreat from Kevin Rudd's mining super profits tax, which made her look weak, and to ditch her predecessor's "Big Australia" policy, which went down well with the tabloids but seemed indicative of a lack of national ambition.
The vast majority of tax scholars and policy experts agree that awarding a super-low tax rate to this one form of labor income is completely unjustified as a policy matter.
Recently, Premji caused a stir when he said that he supported a government proposal to tax the super-rich.
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Tax the super-rich if necessary, as long as it contributes to the overall solution he is aiming for.
And from banks and income-tax offices, they acquire confidential lists of the super-rich who surrendered millions in a 1998 tax amnesty.
Tax efficiency is super high because fund has little turnover and only small dividend income.
Under the debt limit deal, the process goes on now to the Super Committee, to consider tax and entitlement reform.
Felix goes a step further, suggesting a wealth tax on the super-rich.
They are expected to include a special tax on the super-rich.
If we simply raised tax rates, the super-rich would just as simply stop showing income or selling assets.
Consequently the Super Committee could not raise marginal tax rates on the top two percent in the name of deficit reduction under the current law baseline.
For the super rich, a drastic drop in the tax-free amount would have been a huge loss.
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There is also a measure to deal with negative headlines generated by Chancellor George Osborne's decision to increase tax on charitable donations from the super rich, announced in last month's Budget.
The Super Committee then can claim deficit reduction when the tax cuts expire (but only for the wealthy).
It is the country's reputation for ultra-secrecy that has kept the super-rich funneling their cash through it to other tax havens like Switzerland, where they can make their money grow in large banks.
From tax shelters, to auction rate securities issues and super-rogue traders UBS is no stranger to ugly press and massive fines.
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Baldwin may not be super wealthy by Hollywood standards but he still is a swell target for tax authorities looking for examples.
Another approach would be to support a candidate financially or support a super PAC enormously with great amounts of financials, knowing that you're essentially buying tax relief, that victory in that case would result in a windfall.
One of the reasons why we have the fiscal situation that led to the super committee and the Budget Control Act and the negotiations last year is because those two tax cuts were promoted by the previous President, passed through Congress and signed into law, and were totally unpaid for.
On the cusp of the Super Bowl, Louisiana state taxing authorities noted that even nonresident athletes earning income in Louisiana must pay state tax.
As for the rest of this year under the debt limit deal, the Super Committee and Congress could actually meet the requirements to avoid the cuts of the automatic sequestration trigger without a tax increase by adopting the Ryan budget.
Ultimately, the super committee failed to find an agreement, despite Republicans offering a balanced mix of spending cuts and new revenue through tax reform.
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He blamed "tax write offs" and a "review of image right payments" and went on to claim other Super League clubs were in the same position.
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