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What is clear is that Chinese entrepreneurs and investors – who have been complaining for years about the heavy tax
burden
in China – are far more inclined to agree with the World Bank than more favorable comparisons and indices.
So what is the actual tax
burden
on Chinese enterprises?
These might be taken as evidence of a heavy
burden
of tax and duties.
After all, local governments often offer tax returns, refunds, and breaks, meaning that the tax
burden
varies greatly across enterprises, industries, and regions.
That said, the perceived “tax burden” in China also includes non-tax expenses, including a relatively high proportion of social insurance paid for workers, the actual cost of land, resources, and financing, as well as a variety of government surcharges.
While it is impossible to estimate the precise size of Chinese firms’ tax burden, they feel under pressure.
As Zucman points out, a corporation can move its legal headquarters and use mechanisms like transfer pricing to shift its tax burden, but moving its employees across national borders is more difficult, and it cannot move its customers.
Yet the end of cheap oil – along with the recession – invites us to escape the
burden
of car loans, sell the second car, drive less, car-share, choose smaller vehicles, mass transit, bicycles, or our feet, or move to walkable, transit-linked neighborhoods.
If prices – and thus average debt-service capacity – fall, the real
burden
of the debt increases.
Likewise, Greece can now manage its public-debt burden, which stands at about 175% of GDP, thanks to the ultra-low interest rates and long maturities (longer than those on Japan’s debt) granted by its European partners.
The government, which bore the
burden
of a large part of its development, sees little or no return.
Assuming that Greece could borrow at a real interest rate of only 3% (the current level is 17%), the government would need to run an annual 2.6%-of-GDP primary budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt-service costs) for the next 30 years just to keep the debt
burden
stable.
In other words, Greece has exhausted its ability to share part of the
burden
with the private sector.
He has ascended the throne of the Byzantine emperors on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece, and portrayed his perpetual presidency as a
burden
he must carry, in service to his country and his people.
The growing dispute over trade sanctions brings to the fore not only the fundamental ethical question of whether wealthy nations should bear the
burden
of emissions reduction alone, but also the strategic question of whether sticks as well as carrots should be used to induce green behavior in developing countries.
Russians know that, one day, these unassuming political beasts of
burden
suddenly come out on top, as Stalin did in the early 1920s.
Instead, it has developed a nuclear weapons program that threatens stability in the region and places a heavy
burden
on its economy.
Against this background of rising tax rates and a shift in the tax
burden
to those with the highest income levels, it would not be surprising if Congress reduced the top tax rates and broadened the tax base in a revenue-neutral way.
Deflation increases the real (inflation-adjusted) debt burden, as well as the real interest rate.
Austerity’s underlying logic is that budget cuts, by reducing the debt
burden
and restoring confidence, ultimately enhance stability and support growth.
But when children are healthy, families are freed from the
burden
of costly medical care, allowing them to spend more on food and education.
And, in the process of freeing people from the
burden
of disease, we will unlock immeasurable human potential.
West European economies have continued to grow – albeit not as rapidly as they might have – despite bearing the heavy
burden
of the unemployed 10% or more of the labor force.
The good news, as Roach observes, is that the service sector places less
burden
on natural resources and creates more employment than manufacturing.
As a result, if the price of soy continues to fall, subsidies – a source of corruption and patronage – will be an increasingly heavy
burden
for public spending.
This, in turn, creates the need for more internal devaluation, further heightening the debt burden, and so on, in a vicious spiral downward into depression.
So, if internal devaluation is to work, the value of debts, where they already represent a heavy burden, must be reduced.
In his commentary, Evans misrepresents the humanitarian
burden
of a more open refugee policy.
And yet, in the end, Greece had little choice but to restructure its debt, cutting the value of private claims by about 75% relative to their face value (although even this is probably not enough to make the country’s debt
burden
sustainable).
Meanwhile, sectors or firms that export, like those in manufacturing, would enjoy significant reductions in their tax
burden.
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