Assignment 4: Tax Structure Julian Hoggard Strayer University PAD 505 Public Budgeting and Finance Dr. William H. Kraus Dec. 2‚ 2012 Habitat for Humanity is a non profit organization that uses volunteer labor‚ donated materials from churches and other organizations to build new housing for low-income families. Habitat for Humanity has built over 45‚000 homes throughout the nation and over 150‚000 homes worldwide. The goal of the organization is to eliminate poverty and homelessness
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“Fat Tax” Imposing a fat tax on saturated fat‚ junk foods‚ sodas‚ etc. would be best because of many health and money related issues that it could possibly solve. A fat tax could help control many health problems the United States is facing today by giving some incentive to buy healthier foods. Taxing these certain foods may help control the way people eat and in turn change lifestyles to much healthier ones than there are now. The healthier lifestyles would help lower the amount of money spent
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: Table of contents: 1. Introduction……………………………………………………….05 2. What is tobacco……………………………………………………05 3. Types of tobacco products………………………………………..06 4. Tobacco related illness……………………………………………09 5. What is meant by tobacco tax…………………………………....10 6. Taxes on tobacco………………………………………………….10 7. Structure of taxes…………………………………………………10 8. The situation in Bangladesh……………………………………...13 9. Structure of taxes in Bangladesh…………………………………14 10. Summary…………………………………………………………17 11
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INTRODUCTION Service tax is a tax on Services. Service tax is not a tax on profession / trade but it is a tax on the service provided in exercise of the profession / trade. It is leviable only if there is provision of service. SALE V/S SERVICE Service is different from sale. The fact that some goods have been used in the course of providing service’ doesn’t make that transaction a sale. The nature of the transaction depends on the intention of the parties. If the parties intended to enter into
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always fascinating to get income tax refund faster but it all depends on the method you prefer to get your IRS refund. Suppose the tax you owe is something less than the sum of the total amount of refundable tax credits claimed and the total amount of withholding paid‚ then you are more likely to avail the benefits of getting federal income tax refund.Some taxpayers prefer to obtain federal tax refund through Earned Income credit which is a real refund of overpayment of tax or through previous year’s overpayment
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Excise Taxes Definition of ’Excise Tax’ 1. An indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good. 2. A penalty tax applied to ineligible transactions in retirement accounts. This penalty is assessed by and paid to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 1. Excise taxes are considered an indirect form of taxation because the government does not directly apply the tax. An intermediary‚ either the producer or merchant‚ is charged and then must pay the tax to the government. These taxes can be categorized
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relevance of Adam’s Smith canons and justify what other attributes I believe a good tax system should have. Formally‚ tax is defined as an involuntary fee enforced by the government in order to finance its activities. However‚ some perceive tax as the price we pay to live in a civilised society and it is a fundamental part of any developed economy. (Oliver Wendell Holmes) From my point of view‚ the purpose of tax is to fund the government‚ incentivise certain behaviour in order to achieve economic
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Smokers and the tax The fallacy in the proposed higher tax on cigarettes is the belief that the number of smokers will be reduced if the price of the smoke goes up beyond their reach. This may well be true if there were no cheaper and better-tasting substitutes which are taxed. However‚ there are a lot of reasons for smokers should pay a health tax. First‚ smoking is unhealthy. Therefore‚ people should care about themselves and think about other people around them. Smoking cause a lot of diseases
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“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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Tobacco tax: good for health‚ good for government finances Tobacco use kills over 5 million people each year and is the largest single preventable cause of premature death.1 Tobacco is very costly to society through high costs to treat tobacco-induced disease or through loss of productivity as a result of the premature deaths. But governments have a tool to combat the costs of tobacco use — tobacco taxation. Higher tobacco prices decrease consumption and encourage people to quit Increasing
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