Among expenditure taxes, a flat tax-rate on final goods is less distortive than a panoply of excise taxes since it affects spending decisions less.

对于支出税来说，对最终商品平均征税要比多次征收消费税更好，这是因为它对于消费决定的影响更小。

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They classify their ten episodes of fiscal austerity into those that relied primarily on tax increases and those that relied heavily on cuts in expenditure.

他们把10次财政紧缩分为两类：主要依靠增加税收的，和主要依靠削减支出的。

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I. Consolidated industrial and commercial tax is levied at a 5 percent rate on interest incomes from foreign-exchange loan business by calculating the balance after subtracting interest expenditure.

外汇贷款业务的利息收入，按减去利息支出后的差额计算征收工商统一税，税率为5%。

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To stamp it out, or at least to make it less fun, he wants to impose a progressive tax on household expenditure: the more you spend, the more you pay.

ECONOMIST: Spending and happiness

Oil and gas industry leaders have welcomed a move by Chancellor George Osborne to clarify tax relief on decommissioning expenditure.

BBC: North Sea decommissioning tax relief move welcomed

It is determined to clean up public finances and is focusing the budget more on expenditure than tax increases, he said.

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