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

Colorado has a flat 4.63 income tax, regardless of income level.

An additional excise duty (AED, not to be confused with the SED) is levied on goods of special importance.

Then there is the matter of security, which constitutes a huge tax on business in many parts of Mexico.

A 7 per cent government value added tax (VAT) is applied to goods and services in Thailand.

Consider, for example, a tax of 0.25 applied to all cross border financial transactions.

And restructuring is a levy on bondholders wealth, including that of middle class pension savers.

To raise these extra amounts, the Obama administration could levy an excess profit tax on Wall Street to make up the budget gap.

Revenue hungry governments will impose a lower tax when they think that it can be evaded than when they think that it cannot.

Unfortunately, arguing over burden sharing creates more scope for delay, potentially undermining the efficacy of any wealth tax that might finally be instituted.

This implies that any tax on carbon has a much higher impact on coal than on crude oil (or gas).

In other words, conscription operates as a large in kind tax on the poorest households, thereby sustaining and increasing Russia s already high inequality.

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

Each region of the world should introduce a tax on CO2 emissions that starts low today and increases gradually and predictably in the future.

America, in fact, needs a value added tax, which is widely used in Europe, but Obama himself staunchly ruled out that kind of tax increase during his election campaign.

We propose an education investment bank to be established with the cooperation of the GPE and major international investment banks, capitalized in part by proceeds from a financial transaction tax (FTT), such as that proposed for the European Union.

Countries that now have solid financial regulatory systems in place are already effectively taxing their financial firms more than, say, the US and the UK, where financial regulation is more minimal.

An Inequality Tax

As of now, Europe s Tobin tax proposals are not well targeted. Sound transactions would be taxed along with destabilizing, overnight financing of fragile financial institutions.

The Corporate Tax Conundrum

2220 Stamp tax

2250 Statistical tax

But there is a much better strategy than tradable permits. Each region of the world should introduce a tax on CO2 emissions that starts low today and increases gradually and predictably in the future.

In other areas of trade, the principle of countervailing duties has been recognized when a country imposes a subsidy, others can impose a tax to offset the unfair advantage given to that country s producers.

T he tax multiplier is around minus 1.1....

Taxing the Israeli Occupation

The Wrong Tax for Europe

2260 Tax on transport facilities

The cap and trade system thus imposes a carbon tax without having to admit that it is really a tax.

Voters have been subjected to a barrage of outlandish claims the Treaty would supposedly introduce abortion into Ireland (it is outlawed under Ireland s constitution), abolish Ireland s low corporate tax rate, and introduce a European army that would soon be sending Irish boys home from distant battlefields in body bags.

Under the FairTax, the federal government would be able to concentrate tax enforcement efforts on a single tax.

Hollande s predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, tried to address this problem. He exempted voluntary overtime pay from employment tax and shifted some of the burden of labor taxation onto consumption (via a hike in VAT).

Yet, along with good asset price inflation, aimed at making people feel richer and spend more, these approaches have delivered bad inflation, owing to surging commodity prices, which impose a tax on both inputs and consumers.

An Energy Tax for Europe

The Tobin Tax Lives Again

Tax revenue is included for comparison.

2210 Tax on foreign exchange transactions

But democracy cannot be imposed by force.

Japan s government has a huge debt burden, and its consumption tax rate is far lower than the value added tax rates that prevail in Europe.

Developing nations should also push for a Tobin tax a tax on global foreign currency transactions.

Because of the high registration tax (180 ), VAT (25 ), and one of the world's highest income tax rates, new cars are very expensive.

With international oil prices dropping by a whopping 40 per barrel since the summer this is an ideal moment for governments to introduce carbon pricing. Rather than let the consumer price of oil fall by that amount, governments should put a carbon tax in place.

But, there is another dynamic at work.

February 25 Oregon places a one cent per US gallon (0.26 liter) tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

The tax system should be reformed by increasing reliance on income progressive taxes, restructuring the property tax and introducing reasonably progressive taxes.