Inside America s Tax Battle

Taxes, revenues, uncollectible taxes and tax credits

1. Taxation and customs

The United States has a wide range of tariffs on processed fruit and vegetables, which are high for some products (e.g.24.4 per cent MFN rate on dried onions).

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

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

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Organizations receiving approved charitable status are required to submit their annual financial statement to the Ministry of Finance.

Tax revenue

Property taxes, excise taxes, import duties, and sales taxes all of which are paid, directly or indirectly, by corporations can have a magnified impact on corporate profits, and hence on the stock market. It is no coincidence that wherever stock markets thrive, governments take care that these taxes stop well short of destroying after tax corporate profits.

There is no income tax, and customs duties account for about 35 per cent of government revenues other significant revenue sources are company fees, land and stamp taxes, employment tax, a hospital levy, vehicle licence fees and taxes on hotel occupancy, passenger departures and cigarette sales.

For the first time since Dayton, new revenue distribution arrangements (customs revenues and most excise and sales tax revenues) have been launched.

Revenue from businesses and entry taxes

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And 2004, the net profit, after taxes very serious taxes was 120 million dollars.

In that connection, if tax was currently being collected on its sales, that should be reported as income and Member States should have an opportunity to give their views on the practice.

153. Witnesses described some Israeli practices in the Golan the levying of heavy taxes on the inhabitants, including the apple harvest, breaking into houses and confiscating television sets, appliances and even cars if the members of the household did not pay taxes and denial of the right to dig wells or to collect rainwater for irrigation. Water was seized from and then sold to the inhabitants, land was confiscated and trees were uprooted.

3. import duties and domestic taxes.

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.

The tax system applicable to gold in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a disincentive given the existence of free trade zones in neighbouring countries.

The rates applicable to individual residents in Gibraltar range from 20 per cent on the first 1,500 of taxable income to 50 per cent after the first 19,500.

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Alternative types of taxation

In many developing countries, total tax revenue is derived from three main sources domestic taxes on goods and services (sales and excise taxes), direct taxes (primarily on corporations), and, most important, taxes on foreign trade (import duties). But, as trade liberalization has lowered tariffs and duties, the share of trade taxes has declined, while other sources have not compensated for falling trade revenue.

The passage of the Single Account Law has meant that all customs tariffs, excise and sales tax revenues have flowed into a single account since 1 January 2005.

Eliminating special interest loopholes, like tax breaks for oil and gas, or for corporate jets, would not yield enough revenue to pay for a meaningful rate cut. And curtailing accelerated depreciation, the manufacturing production deduction, and the R amp D tax credit which account for about 80 of corporate tax expenditures would involve significant tradeoffs.

Eliminating special interest loopholes, like tax breaks for oil and gas, or for corporate jets, would not yield enough revenue to pay for a meaningful rate cut. And curtailing accelerated depreciation, the manufacturing production deduction, and the R D tax credit which account for about 80 of corporate tax expenditures would involve significant tradeoffs.

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.

General carbon taxes are under consideration, and a shift towards taxing the use rather than the purchase of cars is foreseen.

Taxation and determining location of the parties

1. Income tax.

In exchange for shifting to a territorial system and reducing the tax rate, the federal government could tax all of these untaxed past earnings at a low rate to be paid over a ten year period. Companies would then be free to repatriate their pre existing earnings without paying any additional tax, while future foreign earnings could, as in other countries, be repatriated by paying a low 5 tax.

All items should be exempt from tax and customs duty.

Capital tax differences among countries would induce capital to flow from the high tax to the low tax economies.

According to the tax reduction fact sheet of different income groups, for the people whose monthly income will be 8000 yuan, 10000 yuan, 20000 yuan, and 50000 yuan after deducting the three insurances and one fund , the taxable amounts after the tax reform will be 90 yuan, 290 yuan, 1590 yuan, and 9090 yuan respectively. Compared with the monthly threshold of 3500 yuan, the corresponding tax reduction ratio is 73.9 , 61.1 , 49.0 , 18.8 respectively.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes. Larger dividends paid to the budget from the highly profitable state enterprise sector could also provide an alternative source of funds.

One key idea was to lighten the tax burden on labor . Taking into account the personal income tax and various social contributions, taxation of labor income in China is too high . To be sure, taxes are needed to finance social spending, but revenue sources other than taxes on labor income could do the job. China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

However, in the case of common ownership by a couple, there is a possibility to deduct tax at a rate corresponding to half of the total income of the couple (splitting system).

Domestically, however, a certain sense of confidence has re emerged, and, in the last few months, there has been a significant increase in the tax yield, the result of greater strictness in the collection of customs duties and taxes.

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