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.
You try to levy a tax for their own good, and they just change their behavior.
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.
Central America has fallen into a Hobbesian trap: the better-off make private arrangements there are five times as many private security guards as policemen or soldiers in Guatemala, and four times as many in Honduras and therefore block efforts to levy the tax revenues necessary to strengthen the state.
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.
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.
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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With property prices starting to soar, the government last month stepped up its controls of the real estate market, vowing to levy a 20 per cent capital gains tax to thwart speculators.
In Maryland greedy pols are ready to raise the sales tax 20% and to boost the levy on business profits--a great way to clobber both consumers and job-creating enterprises.
Stormont wants to reduce the tax - which is a levy paid on the profits of companies - to equal, or even below, the 12.5% rate of its island neighbour, the Republic of Ireland.
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.
According to the 2010 tax review, the new resource levy should replace existing royalties that miners pay to state governments.
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From April, Tokyo's city government plans to levy a 2-3% tax on the operating profits of big banks based in the capital.
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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Media reports say the size of the tax levy would amount to 5.8 billion, or a little more than half of the bailout fund.
Media reports throughout Europe say the size of the tax levy would amount to 5.8 billion, or a little more than half of the bailout fund.
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So far the government's only economic initiatives have been to scrap an unpopular house levy and reduce the tax on overtime.
The first new right: A taxpayer who owes back taxes now can appeal to Tax Court to stop an IRS levy or seizure of his property.
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.
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.
And used a tax-exempt to duck the levy.
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But, to reassure the hesitant, all employers might be asked to pay a levy perhaps in the form of a higher rate of payroll tax to employ foreign-born workers.
He wants to get rid of the death tax, and he certainly would be more open than Gore would be to reducing the capital gains levy--and ultimately scrapping this incomprehensible, politically polluting tax code.
Costa Rica's government has sent bills to congress that would tax money earned abroad, levy the sales tax on services as well as goods, and introduce a single form for income tax.
The executors argued the painting was merely a "plant" used to boost visitors and should be exempt from a tax levy.
But companies may have to pay the 2% levy, which is collected by tax authorities and then (after deducting a non-reimbursable administration fee) held in escrow, even so.
Unveiling Labour amendments to the legislation, shadow financial secretary Chris Leslie called for a review of the levy - and urged the government to introduce an additional tax on bankers' bonuses.
He says the sales levy "is widely regarded to be the most regressive tax that states impose, " which is funny given that Mr. Patrick is the same guy who raised the rate to 6.25% from 5% in 2009.
Surprisingly, Mr Steinitz has raised VAT from 15.5% to 16.5% (but had to drop a proposal to levy it on fruit and vegetables), while embarking on a seven-year plan gradually to reduce company tax and income tax instead.
Compared to the income and general sales tax hikes, the Amazon levy is penny ante stuff.
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