“Fat Tax” Not a Panacea “Obesity now contributes to the death of more than 360‚000 Americans a year. The incidence of childhood obesity is now at epidemic level. Alarm bells are going off all over the place. But our government has done virtually nothing.”- Tom Harkin. Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health‚ leading to reduce life expectancy and/or increased health problems (Wikipedia). To cut that number
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MEMORANDUM TO: Dr. Green FROM: Kecia Carter DATE: November 28‚ 2010 RE: Tax Memo #1/Gambling Activities Issue #1 Dr. Green is a practicing physician in Chicago who‚ as an avid blackjack and slot machine player‚ travels to Las Vegas bi-weekly to gamble. He would like to know what criteria are used to determine whether his gambling activities constitute a trade or business for federal income tax purposes and whether or not you think his gambling activities qualify for trade or business
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In 2010‚ Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard decided to implement carbon tax in order to gain more support in response to the change in climate (http://isen.northwestern.edu/doc/pdf/URG-ISEN_ALloyd.Jun12_ProjectSummary.pdf) and on the 8th of November 2011‚ the ‘Clean Energy Legislative Package’ is then passed by the Senate which sets out the way that Australia will introduce the carbon tax to reduce carbon pollution (http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/services/assurance/accountingtechnical/wha
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NCOME-TAX ACT‚ 1961* [43 OF 1961] [AS AMENDED BY FINANCE ACT‚ 2012] An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to income-tax and super-tax BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twelfth Year of the Republic of India as follows :— CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title‚ extent and commencement. 11. 2(1) This Act may be called the Income-tax Act‚ 1961. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) Save as otherwise provided in this Act‚ it shall come into force on the 1st day of April‚ 1962. Definitions
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2005 Economic Structure of East African Countries Market size indicators Access to telecommunication services Eligibility for EU and USA GSP access Summary of MFN applied tariffs rates MFN applied duty rates by product group Frequency distribution Share of duty free imports in each product category Implicit import duty rates Annual growth of Ethiopia’s export to the EAC and Sudan Import share of EAC and Sudan from Ethiopia by broad product
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Australian Tax Law BFA714 – Exempt Income BFA714_10 What is income? 2 Key Legislative Provisions ITAA97 • Economist View – Division 6: • • • • • – Traditional economic view of income is that it is a ‘gain’ • Recognises both realised and unrealised gains as income s 6-5 Ordinary income s 6-10 Statutory income s 6-15 Not assessable income s 6-20 Exempt income s 6-23 Non-assessable non-exempt income – Other Relevant Divisions: • • • • • Tax View • Only
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meaning In the general sense‚ a direct tax is one paid directly to the government by the persons (juristic or natural) on whom it is imposed (often accompanied by a tax return filed by the taxpayer). Examples include some income taxes‚ some corporate taxes‚ and transfer taxes such as estate (inheritance) tax and gift tax. In this sense‚ a direct tax is contrasted with an indirect tax or "collected" tax (such as sales tax or value added tax (VAT)); a "collected" tax is one which is collected by intermediaries
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INCOME TAX NOTES Residential Status and Incidence of Tax According to Section 5 of the Income Tax Act the scope of total Income of an assessee depends on his residential status.On the basis of residential status assessee are classified under the following two categories: 1. Resident 2. Non-resident. As per as resident individuals and Hindu Undivided Families are concerned‚ they can be further divided into two categories: 1. Ordinarily Resident 2. Not ordinarily Resident. Residential
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Bruce Bartlett’s book The Benefit and The Burden is essentially a book that talks about the existing tax code in the United States and the reason(s) it is need of a reform. The author starts the book by briefly discussing the history of Federal Income Taxation in the United States starting from the post-American Revolution period at which time there was nothing called the income tax. In fact‚ income tax didn’t get introduced in the United States until 1861. The only form of taxation before that were
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by the amount of the tax. There are two types of indirect taxes: 1) a specific tax : this is a fixed amount of tax per unit imposed upon a product and 2) an ad valorem tax: this is where the tax is a percentage of the selling price. When an indirect tax is imposed on a product it affects both consumers and producers. Part of the tax is paid by consumers and another part is paid by producers. The tax burden is shared between the two. The burden of a tax is referred to as tax incidence. The allocation
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