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.

The Commissioner General's fund raising efforts should continue and a broader base of donors should be sought.

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

Obama s temporary first year expensing proposal for capital purchases (a good idea as part of a permanent corporate tax overhaul) could get folded into broader tax legislation.

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.

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.

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.

Indeed, the lower marginal rate ought to be made permanent, but accompanied by spending control, with broader tax reform to come later.

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

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

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.

The broader measure of real per capita after tax personal income has also been falling, and is back to levels last seen a year ago.

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.

To that end, additional donors must be identified and a broader, stable, long term financing base established, including an allocation from the regular budget of the United Nations.

But groups such as Baader Meinhof in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy were eliminated precisely because there were no objective conditions for establishing a broader support base.

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, Xi s power base is far broader than that of his two predecessors, Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, both of whom had shaky transitions in the first years of their leadership.

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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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.

France s motivations are broader.

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.

The head is much broader than that of other cicadas, and is broader than the pronotum behind it.

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.

But it is broader than that.

But there are other, broader opportunities.

Need for broader external debt relief

Protecting refugees within broader migration movements

All for One Tax and One Tax for All?

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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