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True, all taxes are distorting, and the government has to raise money somehow.
Taxis produce not only income tax, but also value-added or sales taxes.
Foreigners cannot vote for the higher taxes or lower expenditure needed to service the debt.
But while taxes, bans, and waste-management policies will reduce the problem of plastic pollution, they will not solve it.
What taxes and bans will do is deprive the poorest people of a useful and inexpensive material.
The world does not need new bans or taxes.
In poor countries, by contrast, powerful vested interests often resist higher taxes on the wealthy, and widespread poverty makes it difficult to impose universal consumption taxes on the poor.
Before Britain's next election, an even more worrying admission may be forced on Chancellor Brown: the need to raise taxes to meet his own fiscal rules.
There are many reasons why this won't happen, the most powerful being the end of Britain's equity boom and the consequent loss of revenue from taxes on the sale of stocks.
So however much Brown wants to resist obeying European rules, he cannot long delay raising taxes (or cutting spending) without breaching his own Golden Rule and undermining his personal credibility.
Regarding taxes, the government has adopted measures to reduce evasion and increase collection rates.
On average, developing countries raise 17% of their GDP in taxes, compared with 34% in OECD countries.
Enabling developing countries to generate just 1% more of GDP in taxes would mobilize twice as much money as the total amount of ODA – and all of it could be channeled into education, health, security, or cash disbursement schemes.
The effects of fiscal austerity – a sharp rise in taxes and a sharp fall in government spending since the beginning of the year – are undermining economic performance even more.
His 60-point plan included reforms of fiscal policy and the financial sector that would set market interest rates on loans and deposits, permit some private-investor participation in state-owned enterprises, increase the role of small and medium-size enterprises, loosen labor restrictions, and introduce property taxes to boost revenue for local authorities.
Though people have until the end of the year to deposit the notes in bank accounts, doing so in large quantities could expose them to high taxes and fines.
Likewise, he would probably advocate a fiscal policy aimed at advancing the common good, with higher taxes on the wealthiest companies and households funding, say, infrastructure development, quality education, and universal health care.
By contrast, Trump advocates lower taxes for the wealthy, and seems willing to embrace some form of state capitalism – if not crony capitalism – via protectionist policies and special incentives for companies to manufacture in the US.
All that governments needed to do to ensure the division of labor was to enforce property rights, keep the peace, and collect a few taxes to pay for a limited range of public goods.
But with presidential elections looming, no US government would cut spending or raise taxes.
If a country that has been borrowing like a drunk suddenly sees its credit dry up, it will tighten its belt – raise taxes, cut spending, or do both – with or without an international lender of last resort.
Measures such as carbon taxes and fees, emissions-trading programs and other pricing mechanisms, and removal of inefficient subsidies can give businesses and households the certainty and predictability they need to make long-term investments in climate-smart development.
At the International Monetary Fund, the focus is on reforming its member countries’ fiscal systems in order to raise more revenue from taxes on carbon-intensive fuels and less revenue from other taxes that are detrimental to economic performance, such as taxes on labor and capital.
Pricing carbon can be about smarter, more efficient tax systems, rather than higher taxes.
Carbon taxes should be applied comprehensively to emissions from fossil fuels.
Administering carbon taxes is straightforward and can build on existing road fuel taxes, which are well established in most countries.
If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and raise taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.
After all, sovereigns are called that because they have the power to impose taxes, regulations, and, at the extreme, confiscation.
But the low price of gas will impede the development of renewable energy sources unless accompanied by subsidies or carbon taxes.
It is composed of highly profitable multinational companies, now investing and hiring workers; advanced economies’ rescued banks paying off their emergency bailout loans; the growing middle and upper classes in emerging economies buying more goods and services; a healthier private sector paying more taxes, thereby alleviating pressure on government budgets; and Germany, Europe’s economic power, reaping the fruit of years of economic restructuring.
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