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

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

Indeed, his ideas about taxation have revolutionized Europe.

One proposal calls for taxing national and international financial transactions.

Excessive taxation can dull incentives and hinder growth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Capital tax differences among countries would induce capital to flow from the high tax to the low tax economies. Such tax induced distortions would lead to an inefficient regional allocation of investment and possible tax competition.

As is well known, closing this deficit requires less spending or more taxes.

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.

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.

Of course, multilingualism, empathy, tolerance, and the acquisition of knowledge about foreign cultures cannot be decreed like taxes.

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.

The country as a whole operated as a loose confederation that, like the European Union today, lacked taxing and other authority.

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

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

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

Exemption from import and export duties and taxes in respect of particular belongings right to transfer earnings and savings from the State of employment to the State of origin or any other State imposition of taxes and avoidance of double taxation principle.

After all, sovereigns are called that because they have the power to impose taxes, regulations, and, at the extreme, confiscation.

Still, with the amount of real resources transferred to their governments already high, Europeans might balk at a further increase.

But informal output is of little use for debt service if it cannot be taxed.

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

The increasingly impoverished lives of peasants that the book vividly documented resulted from the very abuses of power that Hu Jintao had declared himself to be against.

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

In that case, governments will try to cut carbon emissions through taxes and trading schemes without effective replacements.

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

The US today seems to be moving towards a gentler and more European style state, with higher taxes and possibly greater regulation.

This will surely involve sharp cuts in the consumption of fossil fuels, bolstered by taxes and other restrictions.

Yet it is argued that much higher taxes and subsidies are the best way to increase research and development in new, cheaper renewable energy sources.

Revitalizing redistribution through optimally progressive taxation or voluntary transfer will increasingly be an imperative of expanded social protection schemes.

The Commission highlights other issues that have received insufficient global attention such as tax competition among developing countries, which shifts more of the tax burden from business to workers.