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

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

They include the authority to impose taxes and restraints on individuals and private entities through criminal, administrative, and civil law, as well as the state s obligation to provide public goods and services.

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

The power to tax is thought to make government debt safer private borrowers have no right to the profits or wages that they need to satisfy their obligations.

But the power to tax has practical limits, and governments moral or legal right to bind future generations of citizens to repay foreign creditors is questionable.

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.

So much for the sovereign debt crisis, which, given its national, regional, and global impact, has been particularly well covered. After all, sovereigns are called that because they have the power to impose taxes, regulations, and, at the extreme, confiscation.

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.

No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries debt crisis.

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.

What is needed are constraints on fiscal policy by each country, not a supranational fiscal authority.

A eurozone government, by contrast, is always in a precarious situation it has only very long term assets (its taxing power) and shorter term liabilities, namely government debt, much of which has to be rolled over annually.

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.

No one seems to have the power to impose a sensible resolution of its peripheral countries debt crisis.

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.

The Congress had no authority to levy taxes, and was required to request money, supplies, and troops from the states to support the war effort.

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.

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.

Now, China s government must take fiscal decentralization further, giving each local government the authority to collect taxes and control its budget s scale and structure.

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.

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.