Revenue from businesses and entry taxes

For starters, the revenue gains from temporary wealth taxes can be very elusive.

Another idea is to try to raise more revenue from carbon permits or taxes.

Even in the face of smuggling, higher taxes reduce consumption and raise revenue.

When you cut taxes, you get lower revenue, which means a bigger budget deficit.

Deputies supervise a staff of revenue collectors, who collect taxes and fees from public facilities such as airports and seaports and private businesses.

Conventional taxes raise revenue, but pose a much greater risk of depressing growth in the process.

In many countries, tax reform has already significantly increased the share of direct taxes in overall revenue.

Of that amount, 112,000 derives from import taxes , 308,000 from export taxes and 57,000 from berth taxes .

In principle, one could cut other taxes to offset the effects of a carbon tax, neutralizing the revenue effects.

Energy and carbon taxes can raise revenue while leaving the economy in a stronger state to sustain a recovery.

For example, an increase in direct taxes, such as income tax, can reduce consumption by twice as much as energy and carbon taxes that raise the same amount of revenue.

Further, the Municipality has passed a law directing that all revenue from sewage and sanitation taxes (about US 10 million) should be invested exclusively in the sewage system.

Mr. Frank Mullen (Ireland). Assistant Secretary, Head of the Direct Taxes, Interpretation and International Division, Office of the Revenue Commissioners.

On the revenue side, as many as 63 developing countries are considering raising consumption taxes, such as the value added tax.

In particular, higher tobacco taxes yield a double benefit they reduce smoking, a leading cause of adult death, and raise revenue.

But there are other taxes that can raise significant amounts of revenue with a much less negative impact on the economy.

Improvement of the management and functioning of public financial administrations (customs, taxes, revenue departments, public land offices) through foreign technical assistance.

Exemption from taxes

Exemption from taxes

The idea took hold that tax cuts should be undertaken all the time, at every opportunity, because reducing taxes supposedly raised revenue.

Proceeds from revenue producing activities

But the impossibility of raising revenue then triggered the French Revolution, with the revolutionaries demanding confiscatory taxes and impositions on the wealthy elite.

In addition, federal law considerations such as federal taxes administered by the Internal Revenue Service may affect the structure and creation of trusts.

There are ongoing struggles for the control of municipal and local taxes, public assets, economic and natural resources and the revenue they generate.

It is true that Latin American governments, particularly the Brazilian authorities, succeeded in raising more revenue from taxes on bank withdrawals (a crude version of an FTT) than most policy analysts thought possible.

India s complex system of national and state sales taxes distorts domestic trade. Replacing these taxes with a national value added tax and using revenue sharing to the states has been long debated and should now be enacted.

The increased government revenue that this generates (plus the decreased spending on the unemployed) pays for the extra borrowing without having to raise taxes.

(c) Revenue source's protection from adjustment

On the fiscal front, the shift from a complex system of state level indirect taxes to a national goods and services tax (a type of value added tax) will improve efficiency and raise revenue.

Taxes and charges These can be used to change the behaviour of tourists and enterprises, for example through increasing prices, and also for raising revenue from them for use in conservation or social projects.

Government revenue collection agents in several counties informed the team that all taxes collected were transported to the Ministry of Finance head office in Monrovia.

By contrast, in high income countries, income taxes (primarily on individuals) comprise the largest proportion of tax revenue (roughly 36 ), while domestic taxes on goods and services and social security contributions each account for slightly more than one quarter.

Broken down in percentage terms, the revenue generated from the project portfolio of services is estimated at 60.1 per cent revenue generated from direct service provision is estimated at 36.5 per cent and revenue from rental and interest represents 3.4 per cent of total projected 2004 revenue.

But, as trade liberalization has lowered tariffs and duties, the share of trade taxes has declined, while other sources have not compensated for falling trade revenue.

By the end of the decade, the US will have to pay an amount equivalent to more than one third of the revenue from personal income taxes just to pay the interest on the national debt.

In terms of the effect on GDP and jobs, the cost of increasing revenue from this source would be as much as one third less than that of raising the same amount via income taxes or VAT.

Depressing economic activity further through higher taxes and reduced government spending would cause offsetting reductions in tax revenue and offsetting increases in transfer payments to the unemployed.

The total revenue from pit sawing is unclear.

Table 2 Revenue from Kismaayo Airport (United States dollars)

In order to increase personal income taxes share of total revenue, developing countries are already improving their tax administrations in innovative ways, particularly to reach hard to tax citizens.

To be sure, most taxes entail heavy excess burdens the cost is significantly greater than the value of the revenue raised because of potential taxpayers' myriad attempts at evasion and avoidance.

During the transition to non trade sources of revenue, aid flows, aimed at replacing revenue shortfalls from trade liberalization, could be very useful

Most of the revenue collected is from the import of khat.

Revenue transfers from central government to local authorities are one option.