For a long time, only Japan imposed a more onerous tax rate than the United States.
But development of those resources is stymied by a lack of transmission, onerous tax disincentives, and a thicket of bureaucracy.
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The previous government's onerous tax and regulatory policies reduced British Columbia to an economic under-achiever through most of the 1990s.
Tight currency controls, corruption and onerous tax regulations of many nations all but force their citizens to use informal channels, which invites mischief.
Appearing on CNN's "Evans and Novak, " the Missouri Republican said the American people "gave us the majority expecting us to relieve some of this onerous tax burden".
Libertarians and conservatives, by contrast, explain that expatriation is the result of an onerous tax system that imposes high tax rates and requires the double taxation of foreign-source income.
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The telegraph and the telephone, followed by the airplane and radio, empowered corporations to vault national boundaries, conduct their business globally--and shift their wealth to the least onerous tax system.
Actually, there are lots of people who have very compelling reasons to keep their money in havens, and only a tiny minority of them are escaping onerous tax burdens.
This onerous tax on capital is a U.S. competitive disadvantage in the global economy, which is why Congress agreed in 2003 to cut the rates on dividends and capital gains.
Washington state had a ballot referendum to repeal its own onerous automobile tax.
Election outcome notwithstanding, I believe that the quite onerous US tax system (for years past as well as what may lie ahead) will remain the key driver of US expatriations.
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Few suspected that the Tax Revolt, which began as a protest of an onerous state property tax, would end with the cutting of the top tax rate in the U.S. from 70% to 28% (and, together with a then-healthy dollar, ensuing excellent growth).
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The reality is that 70 percent of the cash is in offshore accounts and subject to an onerous 33 percent tax if repatriated.
While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
Friends, we are running through a playbook of national decline laid out by thinkers ranging from Gibbon to Montesquieu (use of mercenaries to fight our wars and clean our toilets, imperial overreach, an intellectually apathetic citizenry, onerous taxes, tax evasion, failure to protect borders, and failure to inculcate newcomers in the time-honored values of the nation).
The fees, that is, are sometimes so onerous and the tax results so bad (some of what you get from the trust is doubly taxed and taxed at rates of up to 35%) that escaping a trust might be worth paying a ransom to the promoter, plus the capital gains tax you were avoiding in the first place.
Many conservative groups complained during the campaign season about the onerous questionnaires sent by the tax authority.
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The resulting tax burden is onerous and could be many times the actual interest received on loans purchased.
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For wealthy individuals, the potential financial damage that could have been caused by enactment of the most onerous of the proposed income tax provisions pale when compared to the financial carnage that would have resulted from the sunset of the Bush-era estate and gift tax laws.
This turned out to be one of the most complicated taxes of all time, considering that every single person or company that had any interest in oil or gas wells was subject to it and had to fill out onerous forms laying out their tax liability.
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It is at least as critical as reducing marginal tax rates, repealing onerous and counterproductive laws and regulations, and the cultivation of entrepreneurial activities as identified by the Kaufmann Foundation.
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From the 1950s through the 1970s, for example, Britain was burdened with onerous taxes--the top personal tax rate hit 98%.
Since the penalties for not filing this multi-page, confusing, duplicative-of-other mandated forms document with your personal return can be onerous, be sure to ask your tax professional if you are subject to this reporting.
Corporation tax in Britain now looks particularly onerous compared with some other countries.
For many Americans, filing tax returns will become much more onerous.
That could have exposed veterans to a 2.5% tax punishment, while other tax penalties would make it more onerous for civilian businesses to hire military reservists.
He said he was willing to work on specific concerns about the legislation, such as a tax-reporting provision said to be onerous to small businesses.
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Moreover, rural governments ended up in a pinch because the central government had, to its credit, ended the hated agricultural tax and other fees in order to relieve peasants of onerous financial burdens.
The automobile is an onerous, expensive obligation and necessity, and in the case of the working poor a brutal tax.
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