According to the GAO, 80 of state tax officials opposed a national sales tax as an intrusion on their tax base.

And fourthly, it is important to expand the tax base.

This can include broadening the tax base, reducing tax avoidance and evasion, improving tax collection, and developing new, cooperative international taxation strategies.

Broadening the income tax base is a central element of the highly regarded Simpson Bowles proposals for tax reform in the United States.

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

In addition, private sector firms provide most of the tax base needed to fund public services.

Economy Chennai's economy has a broad industrial base in the automobile, computer, technology, hardware manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

These revenue losses could be offset by curtailing so called corporate tax expenditures deductions, credits, and other special tax provisions that subsidize some economic activities while penalizing others and broadening the corporate tax base.

This allows for a broad base of support that goes beyond short term activities to foster a longer term impact.

That said, if the goal of corporate tax reform is to boost investment and job creation, broadening the tax base to pay for a lower rate could be counterproductive.

A desirable way to broaden the tax base would be to put an overall cap on the amount of tax reduction that each taxpayer can achieve through deductions and exclusions.

Governments that don t need to broaden their tax base have few incentives to respond to the needs of their people.

A carbon tax, long advocated by a broad spectrum of economists, is a generalized version of a gas tax that hits all forms of carbon emissions, including from coal and natural gas.

In the absence of close and broad international cooperation, the US must join the race and lower its corporate tax rate.

Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

We have been accustomed to societies with a demographic structure that resembles a pyramid a broad youth base tapering to an elderly tip.

Corporate tax expenditures narrow the base, raise the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.

Austerity programs have been largely counterproductive, generating vicious cycles of slow or no growth, business closures, skyrocketing unemployment, and tax base erosion.

Obama s recent statement that he favors reforming personal and corporate taxes by lowering rates and broadening the tax base reinforces that impression.

The tax base thus increased from approximately 8 per cent of GDP in 1995 to more than 10 per cent in 2002.

Redistribution in these circumstances is a more secure way to achieve a broad base of consumption, which is itself a guarantee of economic stability.

Both are openly opposed not only to the tax increase, but also to the continuing presence of the US Marine base on Okinawa.

The rump euro s weakened exchange rate would lead to renewed economic growth, job creation, and a stronger tax base in southern European countries.

The Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI), the tax authority, has continued to try to widen the scope of the tax collection base through various schemes in Government controlled areas in an effort to increase State revenues.

In order that the obligation to exchange information may be broad, a domestic tax interest requirement should not limit the obligation to exchange information.

Osborne s assault on the British welfare state began with the universal child subsidy, a broad base entitlement distributed to all families with children, regardless of their incomes.

So what else can eurozone governments do to raise revenue as their economies recover? Most economists favor finding ways to broaden the tax base for example, by eliminating special deductions and privileges in order to keep marginal tax rates low.

Finally, Abe s growth strategy demands a corporate tax reduction a powerful tool for increasing the tax base in a world in which countries are competing to attract multinational companies. Indeed, lower taxes are vital to increase foreign and domestic investment in Japan.

Moreover, all of Greece s structural problems a thin tax base, large numbers of government employees who receive bonus payments, and generous pension benefits cannot be sustained within the eurozone.

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One sensible pointer from surveying the experience of today's advanced economies, including the newest arrivals from East Asia, is that a broad and robust industrial base is a likely component of success.

Migration of skilled workers from developing to developed countries was not always a negative phenomenon countries with a large population and a broad and flexible human resources base could replace the outflows.

More fiscal space can be created by improving governance and strengthening the tax base, and, for the poorest countries, by achieving additional stable official development assistance (ODA) channeled through national budgets.

Although progress has been slower than required, over the past 10 years the country has succeeded in increasing its tax base and social spending on the implementation of the peace agreements.

The 2005 General Schedule increase, combined with the effect of tax changes, resulted in GS 13 GS 14 salary levels that were 2.49 per cent higher than the current base floor salary scale.

Tax revenue can be raised without increasing marginal tax rates by limiting the tax subsidies that are built into the current tax code.

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A tax called a death tax is regarded very differently from a tax called an inheritance tax, even though the two are really identical.

Previous positions include Director, International Tax Relations, Tax Policy Department Director, Tax Department, Italian Banking Association and Economic Adviser to the Minister of Finance for international tax policy and financial tax issues.

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The air force operates from three major air bases, the 204th Batajnica Air Base and 98th Lađevci Air Base and Niš Air Base.

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