Tax system and customs reform

In Poland, the restructuring of the taxation system took place during the transition period.

30. The Government has reformed the tax structure, reducing overall rates while widening coverage through improved efficiency in collection.

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

This means that the fiscal regime must be reformed and simplified and that taxes be paid to the Government.

Together with the tax reform, consumption tax policies for general consumer goods such as clothing and cosmetics will be optimized, with overall adjustments made to the scope of taxation, tax rates, and the different parts of the taxation process.

During the period under review, a serious reform of the Territory's tax system was instituted.

The strategies typically include accelerating such measures as deregulation and tax simplification, civil service reform, reform of public procurement and auditing policies, legal and judicial reform, and strengthening public oversight mechanisms.

The best response would be to enact strong controls on budgets, together with structural reforms to promote growth. In the US, which has the most progressive income tax among the major economies, federal tax reforms that would lower the rates and broaden the base are being discussed.

The fiscal bureaucracy, too, is being modernized, with the deployment of electronic tax notifications and other administrative reforms boosting revenue collection while diminishing the size of the informal economy.

16. Furthermore, a number of countries have introduced reforms on their taxation system in order to increase its efficiency and transparency.

Republicans have proposed tax reforms in lieu of rate hikes on high income taxpayers to raise revenues for deficit reduction. Obama has signaled that he is willing to consider this approach, provided it increases tax revenues from the top 2 3 by at least the same amount as higher rates while protecting other taxpayers.

For these reasons, Obama is championing a revenue neutral reform that would leave corporate tax revenues unchanged, with the proposed rate cut financed by limiting deductions, credits, and loopholes, which would broaden the tax base.

Unfortunately, advanced countries have implemented very little fundamental tax reform so far. Many governments are giving in to higher marginal tax rates rather than overhauling and simplifying the system.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland provided assistance to Afghanistan with the reform of its tax and customs system.

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.

Critical agency reforms include the strengthening of tax administration and customs services through economic policy reforms, such as simplifying and lowering tax and tariff schedules, and through organizational changes, such as better pay and employment conditions, improved procedures, records management,and financial systems.

Furthermore, Japan applies a rate of 30 per cent on tanned and prepared leather.

An urgent task, simply crying out for attention, is to bring order to the taxation system so as to stimulate production processes and structural changes.

Corporate tax reform also offers a good opportunity for bipartisan agreement, especially given that Obama and congressional leaders of both parties have expressed interest. While gains from fundamental tax reform say, replacing the current tax system with a broad based consumption tax are large, on the order of 0.5 1 percentage point per year of economic growth for a decade, corporate tax reform would also boost growth.

Deepening the reform of the state oversight system is a major political structural reform related to the overall situation.

In this context, I also noted the importance of moving forward on constitutional reforms as well as on essential tax, land and justice matters.

Work will be done with partners to promote the necessary institutional reforms (tax reforms, access to credit, improved communication systems, etc.) to facilitate entrepreneurship.

Fiscal reform We desperately need you to eliminate the looming fiscal cliff in the context of medium term reforms of both the tax system and entitlements. This would also allow for greater fiscal stimulus at a time when other components of aggregate demand are slowing.

Civil service reform ___________

These reforms incorporated both structural changes and changing the culture of the Department (para.

Reform and improvement in the field of Welfare

Problems with regard to the financing of the telecommunication infrastructure include the presence of state monopolies, low efficiency, the need for tariff restructuring and new regulatory regimes.

While tax reform was high on President Felipe Calderón s agenda during last year s presidential campaign, electoral reform was not. Instead, it has been imposed upon him by a strange and extreme version of political horse trading.

2. Reform of social security schemes

The fact that a large share of business income is currently taxed as personal income makes it difficult to separate corporate tax reform from personal tax reform, as Obama and members of Congress would prefer to do. Moreover, keeping the two areas of reform separate rules out the approach adopted by several other developed countries, which have offset some of the revenue losses from cutting corporate tax rates by increasing taxes on corporate equity income at the personal shareholder level.

From the perspective of measurement and calculation of personal tax reduction for Shanghai taxpayers in the earlier stage, the broad masses of taxpayers will fully experience the benefits of the personal income tax reform, especially the lower and middle income people, who will see more significant tax reduction.

But, while these additional tax revenues would improve Europe s public finances, they would not obviate the need to reform the welfare state. Indeed, at best, they could facilitate a socially responsible transition to more efficient forms of social protection.

Nonetheless, it still faced major challenges, such as stagnation in domestic investment and reform of the tax system.

Governments should also work to improve tax compliance and reduce evasion, which requires limiting tax officials discretionary authority. Computerizing tax administration, for example, could help to limit corruption by making it more difficult to tamper with records.

(d) To carry out a comprehensive reform of the judicial system

Institutional reforms to promote global cooperation

The Agreement on Constitutional Reforms and the Electoral Regime

GRAP proposes a set of key reforms and another set of supporting reforms including Institutional reforms. Reforms in policies, budgeting and public expenditure mechanisms. Reforms to increase and improve women's employment in public sector organizations.

He argues that the tax law reform of 2001 refutes the State party's argument that the inequalities in the Act of 4 July 1990 were necessary to elaborate a coherent body of tax legislation.

Critics assert that Zhu s 1994 tax reform led to the current real estate bubble, because it drove local governments to use land sales to boost their incomes. But the fact is that replacing the income sharing system with a tax sharing system stabilized China s economy and reversed the relative decline of central government revenue.

As a result of the Uruguay Round and national tariff reforms, average tariff levels of many countries have now been reduced to relatively low levels.

We are still working on transformation of this institution.

Reforms cannot be dictated by power or money.

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