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First, America’s mini-deal on
taxes
has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff.
Taxes
are raised.
Because it controls the means of coercion and levies compulsory taxes, its dark doings need to be exposed by fearless investigative journalism.
Consider the issue of whether countries should fund health care publicly, through taxes, or privately, through health insurance and user fees.
The Trump administration has cut
taxes
and slashed regulations in the hope of boosting productivity growth.
The benefits of tax evasion may far outweigh the risk of getting caught, but imagine if everyone decided to evade
taxes
at the same time.
A similar review should be carried out on other indicators, such as “Paying Taxes,” with any changes tailored to enable continued comparison across time, one of the project’s main benefits.
Indeed, the incipient German government is discussing cutting
taxes
for corporations and the rich, while raising spending on public consumption, especially public pensions.
The bottom 70% largely pay much more in direct and indirect taxes, despite often having lower incomes.
The arguments for cutting corporate
taxes
are similarly flawed.
Moreover, corporate profits have reached record highs in recent years, and while corporate
taxes
in Germany remain relatively high compared to other countries, they were reduced significantly in the 2000s.
Covering these costs will require
taxes
to be increased substantially and/or for spending to be reduced – precisely the opposite of what the CDU/SPD government is promising.
A new tax code was adopted, with lower and fewer taxes, notably a flat income tax of 13%.
The League party, which captured the North, also promises to dismantle the pension reform, as well to cut taxes, and has openly mooted the idea of leaving the euro.
Only it can establish progressive taxes, adequate regulation of privatized public services, support to small and medium size companies, more efficiency in the public spending and a significant improvement in the education and health systems.
That is the main purpose behind the proposed
taxes
on foreign exchange transactions now being discussed around the globe, as well as devices like Chile's extra reserve requirements on foreign-owned deposits.
The first decision was to reduce
taxes
on overtime work, a measure clearly aimed at increasing the number of hours worked.
As a first step, the GCC states are moving toward new tax regimes in early 2018, including a value-added tax, a corporation tax, property taxes, and
taxes
on fuel, tobacco, and alcohol.
One consequence of all of this is that the government can no longer balance its books and has started to discuss spending cuts and new taxes, in particular a sales tax.
Apparently, fear of even more serious economic troubles – for example, further capital flight when
taxes
are raised – has precluded an open invasion of eastern Ukraine.
My own state would thrive in such a looser federation, using its increased margin of maneuver to tighten its own regulations and to scale up its social services with the savings in
taxes
now paid to the federal government.
One reason why Singapore has a well-funded government, despite low taxes, is that its successful policies caused the land and real estate it owned to explode in value, generating a huge revenue stream.
It signaled that America’s new president was less interested in using government to solve society’s problems than he was in cutting taxes, mainly for the benefit of the wealthy.
While Buffett’s prescription of higher
taxes
for America’s wealthy is entirely desirable, will Obama realize that a genius in one area may be a dunce in another?
As social programs become costlier, they crowd out government expenditures on necessities such as defense, while generating ever more pressure to impose higher growth-suppressing
taxes.
International Taxation and Global DevelopmentNEW YORK – When it comes to funding development,
taxes
are perhaps the most critical piece of the puzzle.
The most significant deliverable of the OECD’s BEPS initiative lies in its new country-by-country reporting requirements, which force multinationals to provide aggregate information annually, in each jurisdiction where they do business, relating to the global allocation of income and
taxes
paid.
Moreover, in contrast to the OECD reforms, the ICRICT recommends public reporting by multinationals on
taxes
paid in all jurisdictions.
And, in the longer term, it calls for a transition to a system in which multinationals are taxed as one firm, with
taxes
allocated to the different countries in which they operate according to an agreed-upon formula.
As American society ages and domestic inequality worsens, and assuming that interest rates on the national debt eventually rise,
taxes
will need to go up, urgently on the wealthy but some day on the middle class.
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