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.
In most of the Gulf states, which do not even levy income tax, duties are the third-biggest source of government finance after oil exports and investment income.
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.
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.
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.
When Congress increased the capital gains tax levy in 1986, the so-called experts at the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that this tax increase would increase capital gains revenues.
Recently, the County has balanced its budget annually without increasing its property tax levy.
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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.
Still, the state's tax as of July 1 is just 24 cents a gallon, 7 cents below the average state tax levy.
Ecuador has also proposed that OPEC levy a carbon tax at the oil wellhead, a concept devised by environmental economist Herman Daly.
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.
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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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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In New York City a high-income maker would have faced a combined state and local tax levy of 11.3%, easily one of the highest in the country.
The council tax levy for waste will be set next week and is expected to rise by 19% in Manchester and by an average of 14% in other Greater Manchester boroughs.
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.
Fortunately, third-parties have immunity for honoring a tax levy.
Russia, which was critical of the tax levy on bank accounts because its locals account for nearly all of the foreign accounts on the island, failed to offer Cyprus financial support on Wednesday.
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?
The cap, enacted as a step toward controlling property tax rates that are among the highest in the nation, generally restricts districts and local governments from increasing their tax levy by more than 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.
Roberts' gowns include a vermilion peacock creation so ornate it requires its own tax levy on the hard-pressed peasantry -- but Ishioka's genius is equally well displayed in the perfectly chosen headwear that goes a long way to distinguishing the personalities of the film's seven dwarfs.
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.
So far the government's only economic initiatives have been to scrap an unpopular house levy and reduce the tax on overtime.
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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