Indeed, the politics of stock markets does not stop with taxes. On the contrary, almost every activity of government has an impact on corporate profits, and in turn, on the stock market.

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A tax cut to low income individuals or increased unemployment benefits would have provided far more stimulus to consumption, just as a temporary investment tax credit would have boosted capital spending far more than reducing taxes on dividends did.

Moreover, after the stock market crash, the maximum tax on dividends paid on stocks was slashed from 35 to 15 , giving a substantial new advantage to long term investors and boosting the compounding effect of reinvesting after tax dividends.

Indeed, it makes far more sense to tax bad things, like pollution, than to tax good things like work and savings.

Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.

He asked for and got cuts in capital gains, dividend, and income taxes.

Recently, the IMF proposed a new global tax on financial institutions loosely in proportion to their size, as well as a tax on banks profits and bonuses.

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions.

Others, like Massachusetts, tried to levy taxes, but its citizens refused to pay them.

Abolition of taxes on realized capital gains increased the sales of shares enormously.

A carbon tax has also been proposed as a method to reduce consumption of fossil fuels.

Finance ministers could tax unhealthy food and subsidize healthy food.

In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.

It even began to tax exports in order to reduce the trade surplus.

Indeed, the politics of stock markets does not stop with taxes.

That is in addition to explicit tax hikes on income, capital gains, and dividends, the implicit ones on energy via cap and trade, etc. It appears that the Obama strategy is to stuff the beast (the mirror image of the tax cutting starve the beast philosophy attributed to some of President Ronald Reagan s advisers), i.e., to initiate massive spending and hide the true cost from citizens.

If the capital gains tax rate is 50 (like Germany) and the company sells the stock,the company has 600 which is 40 percent less than before it sold the stock.

Taxpayers money was spent to purchase corporate stocks in a failed attempt to support collapsing stock prices.

The implementation of the agreement with the European Union on the taxation of savings is a good example of this.

Of course, taxation of financial firms profits and bonuses should be made more similar to that of other economic activities.

Some of that money will be paid out in dividends. Some will be used to buy back stock thus concentrating the equity and raising the value of the stock that is not bought back.

Dividends are supposed to be a share of profits here it was simply a share of government largesse.

It is no coincidence that wherever stock markets thrive, governments take care that these taxes stop well short of destroying after tax corporate profits.

Financial repression is basically a form of administrative taxation of domestic savings.

Indeed, his ideas about taxation have revolutionized Europe.

Although governments levy taxes on gasoline, they are reluctant to impose a general carbon tax because of public opposition to any form of taxation.

Rather than punitively taxing wealth, globalization strengthens the case for shifting to a flat tax on income (or better yet consumption) with a moderately high exemption.

Excessive taxation can dull incentives and hinder growth.

Since that risk is then passed on to taxpayers, imposing taxes on financial firms in proportion to their borrowing is a simple way to ensure fairness.

It also provides social insurance by taxing the prosperous and redistributing benefits to the less fortunate.

Unfortunately, any country that taxes capital too aggressively will only succeed in chasing it to regions where the tax burden is lighter.

At a minimum, the central bank now needs the assistance of that part of the government that taxes and borrows.

And when economists see behavior that has destructive side effects, we like to tax it. Taxation makes individuals feel in their wallets the destruction they are causing.

This is one of the main aims of global taxation mechanisms, such as the International Finance Facility initiative and the Airplane Tax.

Hamilton knew that the wrong kind of taxes would weaken the already fragile economy.

Taxes. Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses.

Strauss Kahn s response that taxes on capital flows are costly and ineffective is therefore unfortunate.

(b) Exoneration from all federal, cantonal and communal taxes on salaries, emoluments and indemnities paid to them by the International Labour Organisation.

Taxes on speculative activity might encourage banks to focus greater attention on performing their key societal role of providing credit.

The church has a power to tax its members and all corporations unless a majority of shareholders are members of the Finnish Orthodox Church.

In a globalized world, national governments ability to tax potentially mobile factors of production is sharply circumscribed.

Mr. Talmon de Paula Freitas (Brazil). Fiscal inspector in charge of the negotiation of agreements to avoid double taxation, Ministry of Finance Secretariat of Federal Income Tax.

Even if the shareholders and bondholders lose everything, with the right restructuring, we can still save the banks and protect taxpayers and workers.

Combining taxation and spending cuts allows the burden of adjustment to be distributed precisely.