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An ad valorem tax (Latin for "according to value") is a ... An ad valorem tax is typically assessed when property is purchased ...

A consumption tax is a tax on spending on goods and services. The ... rates, deductions or rebates, a consumption tax can be made less regressive ...

The Value Added Tax (VAT) is a form of consumption tax that taxes ... Additionally, since this is a regressive tax, lower income people have ...

the island, and the Amangalla, a historic luxury hotel. ... have a ten year period of no withholding tax, no tax on capital gains, ...

time Annenberg lived a life of spoiled luxury, enjoying his father's ... less than kind), he was indicted for income tax evasion and, after pleading ...

duty levied on wine and spirits, and other luxury goods coming from mainland ... place to stop smugglers trying to evade the tax on alcohol, the term "bootlegging ...

in which private vices, such as vanity, luxury, and the desire for material ... in 1690 for involvement in the Costerman tax riots; this may have been ...

the exchange of information relating to tax matters. ==Economy== ... and death duties make the island a popular tax haven. Living standards come ...

small-government, anti-regulation, and low-tax orthodoxies which came to ... while many Americans were able to purchase luxury items, their parks were polluted ...

and culture. He encouraged marriage, giving tax concessions to couples with ... as his subjects, or citizens. He disliked luxury and wore the plain dress ...

inflation, Çiller set out to broaden the tax base and to attract more foreign ... and bought a large apartment block, a luxury house, a shopping center ...

place to stop smugglers trying to evade the tax on alcohol, the term "bootlegging ... runs. These high-speed boats were often luxury yachts and speedboats fitted ...

The British government sought to tax its American possessions, primarily ... In 1765 the Stamp Act was the first direct tax ever levied by Parliament ...

in the Treaty of Allahabad they acquired tax raising and administrative ... Akbar, the court abolished the jizya, the tax on non-Muslims, and abandoned ...

because of tourism and its status as a tax haven. It had the highest ... The banking sector, with its tax haven status, also contributes substantially ...

people who had not paid their radio/TV tax ("kijk en luistergeld ... positioned between its mainline Toyota and luxury Lexus brands. ...

products much like a bucket brigade, with luxury goods being traded from one ... Russian rulers were accorded the status of tax collectors for Mongols (which ...

resulted in a serious degradation of the tax bases of many cities, isolated ... income high-rises (which eventually became luxury housing), and new government ...

the best schools and lived in a cultural luxury no young Colombian will ever ... local hospitals. She developed a plan for a tax-free zone which would have ...

was exonerated of taxes, while the luxury tax was also repealed. Mussolini ... August 1923 law suppressed the inheritance tax inside the family circle. ...

the supply of consumer goods, including luxury items, improved. ... were strictly regulated; in some cases, the tax rate exceeded 90 percent. ...

of literature, and elimination of "luxury" in the government and samurai class. Others sought the overthrow of the Tokugawa and promulgated ...

Madeira wine was perhaps the most popular luxury beverage in the colonial ... Business Centre (Free Zone of Madeira), a tax-privileged economic area, ...

offering services and privileges such as luxury accommodations or the complimentary ... who exceed a certain limit by revoking their tax privileges.NP Action, [http://www ...

early Tang government established the grain tax and cloth tax at a relatively ... new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury and contemporary items. From ...

wanted more liquid assets, whether for luxury goods or to provide for wars ... to the economic crisis by imposing a poll tax. The resulting social crisis ...

was chaotic. The automobile was considered a luxury item and as such, was charged a 15% extra tax. At the same time, the country suffered a severe ...

cruelty, tyranny, and insanity. Raised in luxury, with the expectation of ... helped those who had been harmed by the Imperial tax system. ...

to non-military matters. He prevented a tax increase by the Gallic praetorian ... eunuchs from the offices. He reduced the luxury of the court established ...

and necessities, and his immoderate personal luxury, exhausted within two years the hard savings of Julius II, and precipitated a financial crisis ...

His internal policies included lower tax rates, the removal of price ... of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth (ISF), a symbolic ...

building projects, travel and personal luxury left the national treasury ... decrees making and maintaining Haining as a tax-free state. ...

the nobility. In 1648, he sought to levy a tax on the members of the parliament ... douanes were customs duties, the gabelle a tax on salt, and the taille a ...

Chinese traders of specialty goods for the luxury markets of China. ... also meet his labor obligation by paying a tax. If he found the forced labor ...

Likewise, archaeology shows an increase in imported luxury goods in ... by a procurator with junior posts for each tax-raising power. Each legion ...

of part ownership of the land over time. Tax policies encouraging needed ... metals, camphor, porcelain, silk, and luxury goods comprised the main ...

increase in material wealth, leading to luxury and worldliness. The first ... quot; who were living lives of luxury and engaging in every kind of sin; ...

minimal remuneration while their collective tax burden increased greatly. ... and silk had been shipped off to Britain as tax and sometimes sold in open ...

租)·Pho(布)·Yuk(役). Sometimes heavy tax and corruption of local bureaucrats ... also dampened trade. Korea stopped trading luxury products, like gold and silver ...

Oil is also a major source of government tax revenue. The sharp decline ... fall in the value of the currency. Massive tax evasion also continued, and ...

Sassanid provincial administration and the tax collection system. Khosrau ... subjects of the Muslim state and paid a poll tax (jizya). Invaders destroyed ...

paid taxes as a tithe or various type of tax. "tribute of children" (or blood tax), whereby every fifth young ...

revenue left it dangerously dependent on tax revenue. Future setbacks forced ... and, in some regions, the right to collect tax revenues for the state, federated ...

of the world. I wish I could have had the luxury, like you, of growing up ... Senate Republicans to vote against the Bush tax cuts.Dan Nowicki and Bill ...

principal crops while rice, previously a luxury in the Ladakhi diet, has ... exploited to the full. Ladakhis collected tax on goods that crossed their ...

#039;s comparably low-cost of living, and tax-free incentives for their ... cost of over US$3 billion, is a luxury hotel, built and owned by ...

rink, a New Orleans-themed bar district and a luxury hotel in addition to over eight hundred shops and services. On July 31, 1987, a devastating ...

by economists, such as lightening the high tax burden and overhauling Italy ... Masarati are but a few of the well-known luxury cars that originated in Italy. ...

of Moses. He sought to deny materialism, luxury, and obsession with gold ... cross, kill the pigs, and abolish the Jizya tax. Money will be in abundance ...

his own into trucks and a Duesenberg luxury car at the Daytona speedway. ... In Europe, where tax rates in many countries make diesel fuel much ...

the relatively low cost of air travel is the tax exemption for aviation fuels ... Economic effects: Increased tax revenue, personal income growth, enhanced ...

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Most tax and customs privileges were eliminated in a March 2005 budget ... buy status symbols such as cars, houses, luxury items, and fashionable clothes. ...

the freed peasants had to pay a special tax for what amounted to their ... bureaucracy, and economic fiefdoms; tax revenues had collapsed. Still ...

unshaven, and without any outward trapping of luxury may in fact be rich and powerful, and a well-dressed man driving a fine European car may be mired ...

for companies offering prestige and luxury goods. According to a 2009 ... ranging from basic foods to ultra high-end luxury goods. Consumers may buy ...